The Sleeper’s Ledgers
The Night's Ledger
Two sheets to keep next to your notes on game night, and a table of scenes for when the room goes quiet. It's free.
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- 6 pages
- 2 sheets
- Screen and print editions
- Plain text for VTTs
- System-agnostic, No rules text
Three of the book’s 6 pages. The rest is in the PDF.
Free Session Sheets for the GM
This one is free, and it's built for one moment in particular. A scene wraps up, the next one isn't quite ready, and somebody reaches for their phone. Most of the time the prep was fine, and the trouble is only that gap.
The Night's Ledger is two sheets you fill in about ten minutes before the game, plus one d66 table you keep for when things stall. It covers a single session and leaves the campaign to the other Ledgers. It isn't tied to a system, and it assumes you've already prepped however much you like to prep.
Tonight's Page is laid out by when things happen. The Door is the first ten minutes, and the Road is whatever keeps pulling the night forward, with three ways it could go. The Hour is the scene you'd hate to push to next week, and the Last Ten Minutes is how you want to land it. The Cast for Tonight has six lines for whoever might talk, plus the one object that matters.
If They Stall holds 36 non-combat scenes in six groups, each one a reason for the table to keep talking. Here's one as printed:
45. The thing they said. A line one party member said in an earlier session, quoted back to them, accurately, by someone who wasn't in the room when they said it.
On the back are three lines to fill in afterward, for what happened, what it cost and what comes back. Once this page has carried a few nights, The Session Zero Kit is the next thing to pick up, with five sheets that set up a whole campaign before its first session.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 2 session sheets: Tonight's Page and the Cast for Tonight.
- 36 non-combat scenes for the quiet stretches.
- After the Session: three lines that become tonight's entry if your table keeps a Party Ledger.
- Bookmarked PDFs with no lock on them. System-agnostic. No rules text.
THE FILES
- SA-Nights-Ledger-Screen.pdf (the Moonvellum screen edition)
- SA-Nights-Ledger-Print.pdf (plain white, printer-friendly)
- SA-Nights-Ledger-Tables.txt (all 36 scenes as plain text for VTT decks and house tools)
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The Sleeper’s Ledgers
More Ledgers
No. 1
The Party Ledger
Six printable sheets that hold the campaign's memory, filled in the same night you play. Works with any system.
No. 2
The Backstory Ledger
A past for any character in three rolls, plus four sheets to catch what the rolls turn up. Print one for every player at session zero, or whenever someone new sits down.
No. 3
The Villain Ledger
Four sheets and a table of offscreen moves that keep one enemy busy between sessions.
No. 4
The Faction Ledger
Up to six factions each take a turn between sessions, so the world has moved a little by the time the table sits back down.
