Tag: rpg

  • Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part Two

    In Part One, I talked about some general ways in which gaming can help a writer.  Here in Part Two, I’ll go into more specifics of how running (or playing) a roleplaying game can help you, the author, in developing your world, improving your characters, and building your plot. Roleplaying Games (RPGs) are a variety…

  • Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part One

    As an author, particularly a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, there’s not a lot of ways to draw directly from real-world experience to determine what is “real” in my writing. There are a number of methods to deal with that, to fill out a world, to get a feel for how things work.  World-building, of…