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But I SUCK at writing litrpgs ?

About a year ago I was hired to write the prequel to a moderately well known book series. It's a good gig, but I'd never be able to live off of it. I used to think I didn't want writing to be my career because that would take the magic out of it, but after working a few dead end jobs I've long...

I know railroading is bad DMing, but how much am I expected to allow the players to derail the campaign before I put my foot down and tell them to stick to the plot? Like, if I'm running a campaign where the players have to hunt down a dragon, and one of the players says "Nah, I attack the king...

Giving characters meaningful names is a trap for overthinkers like me. Make one character's name mean something deeper, and suddenly you have to do that with every character or else you feel like you're being lazy. "What's this character's name?" "That's Basilicus Nox, which is Latin for Royal...

Alexander Harthorne: (I have literally never seen this guy interact with anyone without making thinly veiled jabs at them with every sentence) Moderator John: "I sleep." ThisAdamGuy: "It should be illegal to market books with explicit sexual scenes to younger audiences." Moderator John:

Literally anything that has cheese and/or meat in it. I'm a nervous eater with constant anxiety attacks. Yes, it's a problem.

I don't remember. It's been more than a year since I listened to the podcast. I remember that they argued back and forth a little, but in the end the DM stuck with his decision to veto it.

By that point in the campaign, they knew they were dealing with vampires. They had already fought a vampire once and seen it turned to smoke. They knew there was a vampire hiding out in this house and they went in there specifically to kill it. The party got split up, but they were close enough...

So where is the line drawn? Can I not use context clues to come to a logical conclusion and then act on it? If I walk into a room and see a a headless corpse and a bloody guillotine, do I really have to roll for insight to figure out how the guy died?

That reminds me of something else I've been wondering. How do you handle what the players do or don't know? I remember one episode of CR where two(?) of the players were fighting a vampire when another player burst in. By then the vampire had turned into a cloud of smoke. The one who entered the...

I just found out that a game shop near me has weekly DND sessions for people who have never played or are just starting out. I've always wanted to play DND, seeing how it's basically "Storytelling: The Game" but I live in a place where nerdy hobbies are still considered wedgieable offenses. so...

I didn't know what you meant by this, so I did a Google image search. Brb, gotta go bleach my eyes now.

I bought this game a few days ago, and I've been playing it practically nonstop. It's still every bit as addictive as it was when I was a kid. I have to physically tear myself away to get anything productive done...like writing...

The main antagonist is going to be his sister. Child genius, spoiled rotten, True Names comes to her almost as easily as speaking mortal languages.

This isn't the first time I've tried to write a pirate story. Over the past couple years, I've started and given up on probably half a dozen different versions of this one idea. Each one had things I liked, but something about it always kept me from getting more than a few chapters in. I think...

Henry Rider and the Nuyu Prescription, the sequel to Henry Rider: Clown Hunter, is coming to Scribble Hub on January 1st! Henry Rider is back on the job—doctor’s orders! It has been an abnormal two months in the Rider household, even by their normally abnormal standards. Henry may have saved...

I'm not going to argue about how sailors talk when you could take five seconds to do a Google search and see for yourself.

Traditionally, you refer to ships as female. "Lower her sails and raise her anchor, she needs to be ready to sail in five minutes." No idea where it came from, and I've never actually met anybody who does that, but it seems like the kind of thing people would get hung up on.

I've been working on my pirate story a bit, and I just realized that I've spent the entire thing (which admittedly isn't much) calling all the ships "it." "He turned the ship's wheel and turned it to starboard." I really don't want to have to go back and replace every instance of "it" with "she"...

"Woke" refers to beliefs and opinions typically held by liberals and left-wingers, but they typically get called "woke" when those beliefs are being crowbarred into things in blatant and annoying ways that make it feel as if the authors, developers, actors, whatever are preaching to you. Such as...