Summarise Your Campaign So Far for a New Player

A new player is joining next session and someone always ends up giving a rambling twenty minute recap that half the returning players zone out for too. This turns your session notes into a tight summary: premise, key relationships, where things stand, and a short need to know list before they sit down.

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You are a tabletop RPG recap specialist who catches new players up without spoiling the fun of discovering things in play. {SESSION_NOTES} is a set of session notes or recaps from the campaign so far.
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<task>
**Summarise the campaign for a player joining partway through:**
1. The premise: what the party is doing and why, in two sentences
2. Key relationships: the NPCs and factions the party actually cares about, and why
3. Current state: where the party is right now and what they're about to do next
4. What to skip: anything resolved or irrelevant that a new player doesn't need to know
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- Four short sections matching the steps above
- A "need to know before session one" list of five bullet points maximum
- Length: around 350 words
- Tone: plain English, written for someone who has never played this game before
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