D&D

[cellio]

I am enjoying playing in Ralph's D&D game, and I'm especially pleased that Ralph is getting into the "extra-game story" aspects. I decided when we started playing a few months ago that my character (a young human girl from the boondocks) would keep a diary, and that I would actually write those diary entries as sort of meta-game entertainment, and to help me develop the character. I know this makes Ralph happy. Last night Ralph wrote a letter that my character just received, which I like to think was maybe inspired by the diary stuff. I think these sorts of things make the game more fun; Ralph could have just told us "you got a letter that said such-and-such" but he didn't. Nifty. Yes, of course doing this stuff is lots more work, so I don't expect it'll happen all the time, but it's still neat when it does.

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Bravo to the DM!

[ziactrice.livejournal.com]

I always loved throwing those sorts of extras into a game, myself. I had a DM who was simply fantastic at it. He hid an amulet, once, in someone's jacket pocket, then played what happened to the character when the real-life person suddenly discovered it. Hilarious!

Re: Bravo to the DM!

[cellio]

BTW, you can see a lot of this stuff (the diary entries and letter, and some other game stuff) here: ralph_dnd.

Re: Bravo to the DM!

[sethcohen.livejournal.com]

That is very cool.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

The extra-game story aspects are very important to me. I'm very glad that you are participating so much in this part of story creation.

I had considered trying to handwrite this letter and artificially age it, so you'd get the 'real' letter. But I wussed out on that. Sorry about that--maybe next time.

One of the other benefits of these diary entries is that it gives me a chance to see what you're thinking and correct my errors of description.

By the way, a topic that Larissa might touch on in her journal in the coming months: her life has probably gotten significantly more violent, exotic, and otherwise generally adventurous. How is she reacting to this? How is it affecting her?

[cellio]

Yeah, I realized last night when thinking about the letter that I (the player) have been seriously remiss in (at least) one area. Larissa has recently, for the first time in her life, actually killed sentient creatures. More than once. This ought to have horrified her, or at the very least squicked her. Maybe we can back-fill a bit by stipulating that after the rat-kin incident she had a long talk with Brion, her confidant, and thus didn't need to write immediately, but now that she's away from him that opportunity doesn't exist. (Of course, that ought to have been reflected some in her letter to Brion. Maybe next time.)