How to read campaign summaries on Roll For Cupcakes

On Roll For Cupcakes, we often share wrap-ups of our TTRPG sessions.

To make these easy to follow and easy to skim when you’re in a rush, we sometimes arrange the content of a post to show different aspects of the game as it plays out.

These aspects are generally split into two groups: ‘Game Mechanics’ and ‘Story’.

Game Mechanics

Game mechanics, such as the discussion of rules, dice rolls and their modifiers, sharing the tools we used to generate certain scenarios or even just personal thoughts about in game situations will be shared as simple text, like this.

Story

The story, where all the juicy details of the game events and character interactions are shared will look like this – on a parchment paper background.

Sometimes, within these story sections, there might be a record of a characters skill checks or attack and damage rolls. These will usually be on their own line so as not to interfere with the story too much, like so:

Persuasion check: 17 = success