Stuffed Crocodile on Nostr: This is one of those things I did for campaigns before: a small newsletter/zine with ...

This is one of those things I did for campaigns before: a small newsletter/zine with infos, hints, and used rules about the campaign. It isn’t strictly necessary, but I always liked the idea to have a physical reminder of the campaigns I ran, even though the campaign itself has a wiki-page on campaignwiki.org.

Despite the font and the title (in antiquated German to boot), the newsletter itself is half-German, half-English, which I found more reasonable as I am not completely set on running only German-language games in this campaign. The crunch part of the newsletter is in English. Which in my opinion makes sense, as the reference rule book we use right now is Labyrinth Lord Revised from 2009, and not the German translation that came out beforehand. The revised version has some errata in there that make more sense. So as we already use the English rules when playing, additional rules and rules clarifications are also written in English.

If you want to do something like this for yourself, here’s a few hints:
don’t do game reports yourself. If you want game reports get the players to write them. Doing them yourself does not give the player perspective that you want (you want to know what they got from the game, not what you remember, of course you know what happened), and it’s way more work than is enjoyable
hardly a hint: you don’t have to redo everything all the time. It’s not a proper publication, it’s a just a campaign update. Just give a few new rumors/hints, update any characters and their levels, maybe remove bigger articles with rules so you don’t have conflicting versions floating about. Less is more.
Get your players involved to write stuff if they want. Let them interact with the zine. You want to advertise for new hirelings? Put an ad in. Maybe the scribe will pay a small amount for new stories and curiosities brought to him. Try to think how the rest of the world will react to what the characters did.
Print it out, staple it together or put them into a binder. Refer to it at the table. These are parts of your campaign material now. Let them become part of your rules. Glimmermärkische Zeytungen – Ausgabe 1 (October 1204)DownloadRate this:

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