Character Folder and Adventure Records Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/character-folder-and-adventure-records/ The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:01:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.vintagerpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Icon-1-90x90.jpg Character Folder and Adventure Records Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/character-folder-and-adventure-records/ 32 32 Permanent Character Folder and Adventure Records (1981) https://www.vintagerpg.com/2017/09/permanent-character-folder-and-adventure-records-1981/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2017/09/permanent-character-folder-and-adventure-records-1981/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2017 04:29:49 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/2017/09/another-curious-record-keeping-accessory-are-we/ Perhaps the earliest example of the comorbidity of RPGs and office supplies.

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]]> Another curious record keeping accessory (are we adventurers, or accountants?). This one is the Permanent Character Folder and Adventure Records. The adventure records are easy – they’re just tally sheets for you to note important events in a given scenario. The folder? That I don’t entirely understand. There’s some distinction between the stats the never change and the stats that do – the former get noted on the permanent record while the latter get written on regular sheets, which are stored in the folder, I guess? I never saw this in the wild or encountered a person who used it. I only own it because it was tucked in the back of a second hand box set. It seems not very useful.

The Erol Otus art is very useful, though. He has a dead dragon here surrounded by the party that did it in. They seem a swell sort. I particularly enjoy the horns the sorceress has on her head. Otus was apparently all about the slight occult signifiers – did you catch the inverted pentagram in yesterday’s post?

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