I’ve received some recent emails and comments related to my post on turning your Dungeons and Dragons campaign into novel. It gives me the warm fuzzies to know that people are still reading this poor, neglected blog. It has also spurred me to ask why people are so interested in writing a D&D novel based [...]
Don’t write a Dungeons and Dragons novel
Filed under Soapbox on January 18, 2011
Tagged: Dungeons & Dragons, Erevis Cale, fantasy fiction, Forgotten Realms, Paul Kemp, R. A. Salvatore, Wizards of the Coast
Following a new path
Filed under Site News on April 21, 2009
Tagged: blogging, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy fiction, RPG
Where did everybody go? Traffic to the site dropped by almost half exactly last week. I’m pretty sure it’s related to the expiration of the kameronmf.com domain, which happened back on April 10th. Hopefully, folks will find their way back. I know I’ll still be here. I really enjoy blogging. It helps me sort through [...]
Depicting game mechanics in fantasy fiction
Filed under Trends & Tropes on June 18, 2008
Tagged: 4E, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy fiction, game mechanics
I finished reading through the 4E Player’s Handbook last week. 4E introduced some significant changes in mechanics from the previous edition of Dungeons and Dragons. There are a lot of good reviews of the core rules, but seeing as this is a blog about writing fantasy fiction, I wanted to take a different tack. D&D [...]
Turn your Dungeons and Dragons campaign into a novel
Filed under Tips & Tools on June 4, 2008
Tagged: Chronicles of Jord, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy fiction, Janner Kohl, submission guidelines
Never submit a story to a market without reading the submission guidelines first. It’s also important to read work previously published in that market so you can get an idea of what types of stories the editors like. I always do the former, but tend to neglect the latter unless samples are offered online. I [...]
A hundred years from now
Filed under Writing Journal on January 15, 2008
Tagged: 4E, Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms
If you haven’t heard yet, Rich Baker revealed that the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons will advance the Forgotten Realms timeline to 1479. That’s more than 100 years from the current setting. (I’m basing this on the year listed in recently released FR novels.) The Spellplague alluded to in the Grand History of the [...]
