The Academic Journal

The Academic Edition of this journal is organized around the university year rather than the calendar year, running from July 1 through June 30. This structure mirrors the rhythm of academic life in the early twentieth century and is intended for campaigns centered on students, faculty, or researchers. In addition to the daily pages, the volume includes dedicated sections for recording class schedules in both the fall and spring terms, allowing academic obligations, lectures, and recurring commitments to be tracked alongside daily events.

This format is especially well suited to dark academic campaigns set in fictional or historical universities, where time is shaped by terms, exams, and institutional routines as much as by investigations and crises. For games inspired by settings such as Miskatonic University, the journal can serve as a student’s or scholar’s private record: a place to log classes attended, research pursued, rumors overheard in libraries and common rooms, and the gradual intrusion of unsettling discoveries into ordinary academic life. Used this way, the journal helps anchor horror and mystery in the mundane structure of schedules, deadlines, and study, reinforcing a slow-burn, lived-in sense of dread.