When groups game, campaigns come and go but how many groups create some type of keepsake for really good campaigns? I've done this on three occasions:
1) A notebook for each player which kept the "campaign log."
2) A cassette soundtrack featuring liner notes describing the modules/event each track was played during.
3) Personalized pencils with the adventuring group's name.
4) As #2 but in cd form.
To be honest, I'm probably the only one that's really enjoyed these (especially the music collections) over the years but I maintain that years from now one of the players will stumble across one of these items and be blessed with a hit of nostalgia, saying to him/herself, "Good times." That's what keepsakes are all about, right? Maybe I'm just an oddball but has anyone done anything similar?
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I've never done anything like that ... but what I've done in the past was to take all my players out to dinner (usually at a diner) at the end of the campaign, so we can talk about the highlights and really fun moments of the game.
That's also when I "pull aside the curtain" and give info about the game that their characters didn't know. Stuff like "Where *was* the magic sword hidden, anyway?" and "Why did the dragon hate paladins so much" all finally get answered. It basically becomes the equivalent of a DVD commentary track for the campaign.
I always paid for dinner for everyone. Diners usually got chosen because - in addition for food being really cheap - they tend not to kick out tables of seven or eight even if they're hanging around for a couple of hours, and back then they let you drink lots of coffee and smoke lots of cigarettes. Good times.
God, that was a long time ago.
(And this also only happened when I *intentionally* ended a long-running campaign. Plenty ended either by accident, or never intentionally ended ... they just withered away and died.)
Interesting, and a very cool idea! I forgot also that for a holiday treat I commissioned a local cake maker to draw the Protectorate name and sword symbol on a cake for us. She probably thought I was nuts but the pastry was delicious!
I think the campaign souvenirs are very. I still listen to the CD and actually have the pencil at my desk. I haven't been able to bring myself to sharpen it yet.
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