Alex Schroeder posted an interesting idea on Mastodon back in late March:
I liked the idea – spin down a session to its most important facts in 500 characters or less. I’ve started using it and it really is nice! I’ve always struggled with how much detail to put in recaps, if anyone likes reading my recaps. I never felt happy with previous styles, but I really like this!
So here are the most recent recaps from my Dungeon 23 OD&D game and online AD&D game. I’m going to start posting them monthly, I think, kind of a collection so you can easily see the highlights across a month of gaming.
—- Dungeon 23 / OD&D —-
4/4: PCs figured out strange light-eating, blue-glowing-areas room was a weird dungeon centrifuge. Nobody died.
PCs returned to known rooms to retry doors that won’t open. Heard babbling voices. Worked their way around the map through new rooms to get to the voices.
They found a room with boarded up door. Delayed a bit, but curiosity got them to return and pry it open.
They are now next to the room with voices, speaking in Elven!
4/18: PCs tracked down the voices and found two Elves – one quite insane! His friend Abasire was killed in the Maw.
More exploring, they came to a room with corroded ewers on stone pillars. They fought off an ambush by a large spider. They avoided a corridor with a strange black surface.
They’ve reached a storeroom of crude weapons, foul food and the smell of burning meat; rats are nearby.
Mad elf said to PCs: “Abasire says you’re all going to die down here!”
5/2: PCs opened the door where squeaking came from. Four giant rats were dispatched w/fire, but orcs came to investigate.
They were defeated, but an elf hireling was killed and an alarm had been given! The party quickly looted crates, finding treasure!
The PCs exited and spiked the door just in time to stop more orcs! They solved a riddle by assisting 2 dying foes; reward was all PCs healed! Lost, they stumbled into a teleporter and found themselves in a known place!
—- AD&D / Western Borders —-
A very good idea indeed. If you keep them coming I will surely read them. They look like small precious poems