Writing Stories About Role-Playing Games
Mar 4, 2018 3:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by docsammy on Mar 4, 2018 3:25:10 GMT -5
So, as many of you may or may not know, I love to write fanfiction and a little bit of original fiction as well. But it has been a long while since I have written anything of note or importance.
But that has recently changed. As of today, I have written the first two chapters of a new fan-fiction that is focused on role-playing games, wargaming, and childhood nostalgia and memories of being a kid in rural Virginia during the late 1990's and early 2000's (I was born in 1993).
Granted, the RPG system in question is Big Eyes Small Mouth, rather than OD&D or another old-school system like Traveller. But the campaign in the story will be run in an old-school manner similar to how OD&D was mostly played back in the 1970's and early 1980's. The work is a "Story Within A Story", with the early chapters serving as a framing device for the actual main story, which depicts the in-character events of a role-playing campaign done in an old-school manner from an in-character perspective.
It is titled War Toys: Operation Martin Hollow and it is the first story in a series of works focusing on role-playing games and the old-school sandbox way to play.
The next story will focus on OD&D (or something similar to it in setting at least). The story is linked below.
Feel free to offer feedback in this thread or leave a comment on the story in the link.
archiveofourown.org/works/13863942/chapters/31892457
However, I ask my fellow forum members this question. Have you ever wanted to write stories about your favorite RPG's? Or at least write campaign outlines for fun, even if they don't end up getting played?
But that has recently changed. As of today, I have written the first two chapters of a new fan-fiction that is focused on role-playing games, wargaming, and childhood nostalgia and memories of being a kid in rural Virginia during the late 1990's and early 2000's (I was born in 1993).
Granted, the RPG system in question is Big Eyes Small Mouth, rather than OD&D or another old-school system like Traveller. But the campaign in the story will be run in an old-school manner similar to how OD&D was mostly played back in the 1970's and early 1980's. The work is a "Story Within A Story", with the early chapters serving as a framing device for the actual main story, which depicts the in-character events of a role-playing campaign done in an old-school manner from an in-character perspective.
It is titled War Toys: Operation Martin Hollow and it is the first story in a series of works focusing on role-playing games and the old-school sandbox way to play.
The next story will focus on OD&D (or something similar to it in setting at least). The story is linked below.
Feel free to offer feedback in this thread or leave a comment on the story in the link.
archiveofourown.org/works/13863942/chapters/31892457
However, I ask my fellow forum members this question. Have you ever wanted to write stories about your favorite RPG's? Or at least write campaign outlines for fun, even if they don't end up getting played?
