My thinking is that, with my current, this would be the easiest way to keep track of what happened for me and whoever reads it to reference. Is this kosher?

Many people now write roles largely to get rolexp from them. If I saw a role entry that was essentially just a log of a conversation, I personally wouldn't award rolexp for it. I'd mark it as having been read, and move on.

However, I've often wrote role entries that are ABOUT a conversation I've had. And included snippets of the conversation within it.

The easiest comparison I can make is the difference between how a screenplay is written and how a scene of that same dialogue might be written in book form.

Here's a really simplistic example of the difference.

Log Format:
Joebob says 'You must die because you are a mage and mages burned my village!'
You say 'Fool! I draw my power from the Gods! I'm no pathetic magician.'


Role format:
Mycharname had a conversation with an idiot battlerager today, who swore to kill Mycharname.

"You must die because you are a mage and mages burned my village!" said Joebob.

Mycharname retorted that Joebob should take note of the fact that he was actually a shaman, not a magician of any sort.

"Fool! I draw my power from the Gods! I'm no pathetic magician.'


The "role format" version above lets you keep track of that conversation, but can be part of a role update that shows why that conversation had an effect on your character (and what that effect might be).

Mon Jun 15 12:54:24 2015 by 'Twist' at level 51 (468 hrs):
I'm putting this here in the hopes that someone buys the PBF. You sir need to look at your roles while you are writing them. The formatting is so bad that it makes it nearly unreadable. The fact that you ramble on and on in them

Mon Jun 15 12:55:14 2015 by 'Twist' at level 51 (468 hrs):
...doesn't help matters. TL-DR - Reading your role entries makes my eyes bleed.

I wanted to have capture the conversations and reflect how they influenced the character.

You can check out the pbf.

http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=31&topic_id=52331&mesg_id=52331&page=2

And rated with role exp.

As long as they help explain the character