My Dungeons and Dragons Problem. It Wasn’t that I Didn’t Play Enough
by levgrossman on Aug.22, 2009, under Lev Grossman
See, that’s awesome. A vampire prince who got turned human again! Seriously, wrap that in a black cover with some hands holding some fruit on it and you’ve got yourself a runaway bestseller. (BTW everybody looooook! The Magicians is on the bestseller list. That’s a big first for me.)
The problem with me as a D&D player is that I never thought of stuff like that. You might think, oh, right, novelist, I bet he was all like a master of subtle characterization and rich back-story and role playing such. But no. I — or should I say Dirk Whispershadow, as I was then known — was like the douchiest treasure-grubbing, stats-inflating, rule-protesting fighter-thief in Hommlet. I just wanted to “win.”
Speaking of D&D, if you’ve never seen this, prepare to lose an hour of your life.
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August 23rd, 2009 on 11:40 pm
Actually, I prefer Darths and Droids http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html
I find it has more character development (both in-game, and out-of-game) and is more accessible to a non-D&D playing person. Darths & Droids was inspired by Twenty-sided Tale though.