Campaign Log

what carries over — kept by the GM, filled between sessions

This log handles everything that outlives a session: who exists, what they carry, what they owe, and which villages will open the door next time.

Session Log running record

The engine column is worth keeping honest — the generator is meant to vary it, and this is how you'd notice if it didn't.

engines — old failure · racket · scapegoat · cheated bargain · displaced · ambition · kin · duty

Open table: characters come and go. Keep them all here, retired and dead included.

Status: active · wintering · retired · missing · dead. Motivation can change — note when it does, and why.

Reaching the level is necessary, not sufficient. Note what might be building toward a Trial so you recognize it when it happens.

Character	Tradition	Tier held	Trial met?	What it was, or what's building toward one

Nothing auto-identifies. Record what's actually been learned through use, not a yes/no.

Episodic play still accumulates reputation. A village that got a clean result remembers; so does one that didn't.

Standing: welcome for a season · grudging · paid and told to move on · barred · owed a favor

Every one of these is a future contract waiting to be called in.

Write the terms verbatim. A bargain misremembered has killed more people in the Marches than every beast in the register.

Who / what	From which session	Where it was left, and what might bring it back

Each Parting seeds one. They keep until someone bites.

From the Permanent Injury option at zero HP — a real, permanent loss of 2 points. Easy to forget; don't.

Character	Session	Ability & loss	How it happened, and how it shows

"You don't go alone. Not because anyone forbids it — because everyone in the room has buried somebody who did."

Name	Session	How they went	Who was there, and what was said

Hirelings who survived and stayed. Loyalty carries between sessions; so do grudges.

Name	Role	Loyalty	Attached to	Notes

Character	Between sessions	Roll	Result, and anything it left behind

Slow-moving things the table half-knows about. Worth a line whenever one shifts.

The succession at court

The local lord's position

Hobgoblin movements

Anything stirring in the deep wild