Journal Backstory to Characters

[Krispywafers]

Has anyone just grabbed a journal from a house (with a pencil of course) and started to write down what happened that same day but personifying yourself as the protagonist, seeing the world like it actually happened?

Hopefully i'm not the only one that is currently doing this.

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Dito, but only one liners .

[The early worm deserves the bird]

I've honestly thought about writing stories based on the character options based in the Zomboid universe

[Blue_Skies]

Way too much to do storing all the HottieZ for winter.

[Shady Allie]

I have on occasion a while back. It was time consuming and then I died.
New character, new journal. Consuming time. Then I died.
All those role play diaries.

These days, when I find a writing tool and some sort of paper, I use it for making a list of skill books by type and level: have/needed/finished. That takes a lot of time to format every time I start a new character, but once I have it I can reference the notes I made when I discover a book and know if I need to grab it.

Actually now I am typing this, I think I will make a note in my phone app with check boxes for each book. Faster than remaking a new in game notebook list every time I die or start a new character. New character? Just uncheck the books I had on the last character save and start again without having to retype my format for books needed.

I think the story or diary journals will work well for multiplayer games when that gets released. (I only played the IWBUMS 41, so I have never played multiplayer zomboid, the current stable build didn't/doesn't interest me in the slightest. This new 41 stuff, yes indeed, good stuff)

[Lotus Elise]

Typical pastime on RP server.

[Another Mother's Son]

Originally posted by Krispywafers:

Has anyone just grabbed a journal from a house (with a pencil of course) and started to write down what happened that same day but personifying yourself as the protagonist, seeing the world like it actually happened?

I'd love to see some written journals in the dresser drawers. Maybe some of the more creative writers could make a mod that randomly fills Blank Journal

[Lucifer]

Yes, I did that consistently when I played a few years ago... would do random characters and create journals and then look for them with the next survivor when I died.