Character Notes
Posted: October 25th, 2022, 3:59 pm
This was a simple but effective system from another roleplay project that I spent years on.
You could write very concise character notes such as important factoids, current goals and progress towards said goals in just bulletpoints or a few paragraphs, that GMs can reference at will, on the fly. It was just private. You typed a few short things into the aether. It's entirely optional, and you never expect a GM to pick anything up, but it definitely happened, and it was always awesome.
For example, and it wasn't meant to replace in-depth legacy posts or journals, but you would put in your notes something like:
- Character is currently investigating X
- Has recruited X
- Plans to Y
- Hopes to Z
And if a GM opened your notes and was interested in anything, things evolved very organically.
You could write very concise character notes such as important factoids, current goals and progress towards said goals in just bulletpoints or a few paragraphs, that GMs can reference at will, on the fly. It was just private. You typed a few short things into the aether. It's entirely optional, and you never expect a GM to pick anything up, but it definitely happened, and it was always awesome.
For example, and it wasn't meant to replace in-depth legacy posts or journals, but you would put in your notes something like:
- Character is currently investigating X
- Has recruited X
- Plans to Y
- Hopes to Z
And if a GM opened your notes and was interested in anything, things evolved very organically.