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🐲 RPG Interview Erik Scott de Bie: How to write novels from D&D. 🐲 All the secrets revealed!

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Erik Scott de Bie has written, among others, for Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons and knows how to take the most interesting parts of a game and turn it into a novel and take the best bit of a story and bring them into an adventure.

If you are interested in writing a novel or a story based on your adventures, this is the video you need!

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In this interview Erik talks about what it takes to keep an IP fresh from start to finish, like Drizz’t Do’Urden from the famed Forgotten Realms series by Robert Salvatore.

Find out more about Erik here: https://erikscottdebie.com/bibliography/
Check out their Twitch channel: dungeonscrawlers.com

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Interview: Darren Pearce and Judge Dredd RPG

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ENPublishing released Judge Dredd after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the game has seen some interesting releases added to it. So why aren’t more people into it?

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Judge Dredd has been a referent in the world of comic books since it came out over 40 years ago. Its criticism of social systems, the way it treats characters and some stunning scripts and artwork gained it some hardcore fans that love it.

And it has seen some very interesting #RPGs in the past too, including a metal bound hardback that was sold for a ton of money in eBay a few years ago.

I wanted to talk to Darren Pearce, since he has done a ton of work on the game and knows it rather well, and find out more about what the universe has to offer and why everyone should be more aware of this game.

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RPG Interview: Successful Kickstarters with Ed Jowett

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Kickstarters are a really important part of TTRPG publishing and some companies depend on it. Shades of Vengeance is one of said companies with more than 50 projects on their backs. How do they do it?

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When Ed Jowett started 6 years ago, he probably didn’t know he would have 50 Kickstarter projects under his belt in this period of time. And yet, here they are and they are doing very well at it.

To add spice to the sauce, they help other creators get going and also work on ezines, comic books and card games.

In this interview I managed to ask him a few questions (with the help of my cat) and find some information about his current Kickstarter about to end soon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/the-era-zone-2020?ref=profile_created

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RPG Interview: Something Wicked with Gareth Graham from Frenzy Kitty Game

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Something Wicked is the latest release from Frenzy Kitty Games, one of the very few (if not the only) #TTRPG in South Africa. Does this Pulp Horror game have enough to offer?

You can buy Something Wicked from DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/sthingwicked

There is far, far more to this world than meets the eye… a darkness that exists just beyond the light of the world that most of us know and observe.

It is there, on the fringe of reality, patiently lying in wait…

The tales of evil beyond our comprehension that have been whispered for millennia around the campfire. The urban legends about dark rituals, blood sacrifices and secret societies. Terrifying rumours of witchcraft and black magic being used to raise the dead and summon demons under the light of the full moon.

All of these stories are true.

Evil and wickedness exists. It can be found violently piercing the veil for those few who know how and where to look.

People like you.

Something Wicked is a roleplaying game of pulp horror and mystery for 3–5 players by Gareth H. Graham (Children of the Fall, KARMA, Downfall). It uses a lightweight, streamlined engine to get you up and playing fast!


See what your story holds, if you dare…

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Chaosium's Lynne Hardy: Realism vs Verisimilitude in Roleplaying Games

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Chaosium’s line Editor Dr. Lynne Hardy is a true expert on the matter of finding gaps and holes in stories and #RPGs, and thus, she knows a lot about our topic: Reality vs. Verisimilitude.

Whether it is a Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction or any other genre, we deal with things in-game that are totally impossible and yet, they are accepted as realistic.

Trouble is that more often than not people mean verisimilar rather than realistic. And that difference means a lot.

When we say realistic we are imposing a series of norms and laws of physics, society, biology, etc. that correspond with our world’s. When we say verisimilar, we mean that they make sense, that they feel real event though they are not.

So how and when should we stop reality to justify verisimilitude? What are the boundaries and how does it get implemented?

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