The biggest thing preventing me from doing something like this is that I like having my players do a recap of the previous session, as a way to help me know what caught their attention the most/what mattered to them.
I guess you could still do this, especially if you really lean into the idea that the reporter is presenting an extremely biased/limited recap.
I ran one where the players were doing the tabloidery. It was great. I can’t take credit for the basic idea; it was one of the sorta-prefab campaigns in the system we were playing.
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Post by yeens-human:
I’m begging you
Put a reporter and early version of a newspaper in your dnd campaign
At the end of every mission/ordeal have the reporter interview the players as to what happened
After session on the campaign discord type up a hilariously uncharitable summary of the events that took place and start making falsehoods. And most importantly: spell a party member’s name wrong
“Local sea elf beats vandal and promises to kill again”
“Star cross lovers, gangsters come to tragic end at the hands of murderous vigilantes”
(For the original image author, of course)
Yeah, I have to fight the temptation not to fix typos sometimes!
It’s harder when it references Shakespearean phrases, this being one of the most famous terms from his works.
This is how you put your Blades in the Dark crew at war with the Ink Rakes.
They’re called “broadsheets.”
its almost as if those that control the message control society
A tabloid that just exaggerates everything
I did one of these! not a consistent every session thing but they made a big ruckus in town fighting the Mafia who happen to have an influence over the paper
