Every night you play becomes a chapter.

Make your own Chronicle

Install a small addon, play World of Warcraft the way you always do, and drop one file here. You get a chapter of your character's book, written from what actually happened, in the voice you choose.

We keep the file so you can come back and write other nights from it. It holds your character's events and the names of people you grouped with, nothing else is read from it.

How it works

  1. Install the Rambleon addon Download the Rambleon zip, unzip it, and copy the addon/Rambleon folder into your game's Interface/AddOns folder. Built for World of Warcraft: Forever (the _classic_beta_ install). Open source, MIT, by realworldbuilder.
  2. Play. Log out. The addon quietly remembers the night: places, quests, levels, company, your /ramble note remarks. Logging out is the save; the file is only written then.
  3. Drop the file here It lives at
    /Applications/World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/WTF/Account/<your account>/<realm>/<Character>/SavedVariables/Rambleon.lua
    on a Mac, or
    C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\WTF\Account\<your account>\<realm>\<Character>\SavedVariables\Rambleon.lua
    on Windows. Pick a night and a voice, and the chapter is written in about a minute.

What a chapter reads like

At Lake Al'Ameth he found the work turned strange and solitary — timberlings, one after another, seeds and sprouts to be gathered from creatures that should not, by any right, have walked. He wrote it down himself, plain as the water: "alone at the lake slayin timberlings".

From Chapter 1 of a real journal. Nothing in a chapter is invented; the grandeur is in the telling.

Three voices

TolkienGrave, unhurried, the measured register of The Lord of the Rings. The Chronicle of Cassidy is written in this voice.
Warcraft novelistWarm and earnest, close over the character's shoulder, the way a Warcraft novel reads.
Field journalUnderstated, observational, occasionally funny. The adventurer's own notebook.

Want the whole book, nightly, with your screenshots woven in? That is what The Chronicle of Cassidy is. The hosted version of that is next.