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Ten Tips for Turning your Session Notes into Short Stories

July 27, 2021 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

When I started to DM with regularity, I began keeping bulleted summary notes on each gaming session.  By my current standards, those first notes were barely adequate.  In time, I made some improvements.  I also began to incorporate into my summary notes some short lines of text that I used during the session itself.  They … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tutorials Tagged: AD&D, battle, braveheart, cavalier, characters, cleric, combat, creative writing, details, DM, fantasy, fear, fighter, flashback, frangia, frangians, gaming, magic-user, mel gibson, notes, npc, pc, players, proofread, rpg, science fiction, stephen king, stories, story, theater of the mind, thief, val kilmer, writing

RPG-ology #32: Doing Something

July 21, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain

This is RPG-ology #32:  Doing Something, for July 2020. Although this is actually about a gaming referee technique, I’m starting with an example from a book, my novel Verse Three, Chapter One, freely accessible on the web.  It also begins with magic items, but moves beyond that to objects in other settings and genres. As … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: advice, books, bottles, contracts, creative writing, D&D, deeds, design, documents, e.r. jones, er jones, fantasy, fiction, game, harry potter, harry potter and the half-blood prince, j.k. rowling, jewelry, jk rowling, knick-knacks, letters, magic, magic items, non-player character, novel, old verses new, referee, referee technique, role-playing game, roleplaying game, sorceress, Verse Three Chapter One

RPG-ology #21: Living In the Past

August 20, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #21:  Living In the Past, for August 2019. All four of my grandparents have died.  I have also lost my father, and both of my wife’s parents are gone.  I had a long list of great uncles and great aunts at one time, but it has dwindled to nothing, and of my … [Read more…]

Posted in: RPG-ology Tagged: adventure design, boy scouts, c.s. lewis, creative writing, CS Lewis, death, dying, family, Game Ideas Unlimited, grandparent, marriage, parent, relationships, world building, worldbuilding, worlds, writing

Faith in Play #21: Villainy

August 6, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #21: Villainy, for August 2019. It was a year ago, but I had a stack of articles in the queue when it happened, and decided not to disrupt the plan by answering what appeared to be a question from a Troll posted to our Facebook page (I managed to lose the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faith in Play Tagged: bad guys, bad things, creative writing, deceit, ethics, evil, facebook, good and evil, morality, rogue, rogues, scoundrel, selfish, selfishness, thief, villains, villainy, wickedness

Faith and Gaming: Characters

August 9, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

More than two decades ago now, before I’d ever heard of role playing games or Dungeons & Dragons™ or the hobby game industry, I took an undergraduate course in creative writing, specifically writing fiction. I suppose I had some distant dream of retiring and writing the next great fantasy novel, and I thought this would … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: atheist, character, characterization, Come Live Die, creative writing, faith, faith and gaming, gaming, George Verwer, multiverser, novel, pagan, role-playing, roleplaying, roleplaying game, rpg, Verse Three Chapter One

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