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Rolling for Plot: What D&D Chaos Teaches Us About Great Storytelling
On the next episode of the NoNaMe Storyteller Podcast, Aki is joined by guest co-host Charlie Brown and guest commentators David Charlton and Erik Miller to explore what tabletop roleplaying games can teach writers about storytelling. From building compelling characters and shaping story structure to handling players (or characters) who refuse to follow the plot, the conversation digs into chaos, choice, and consequence.
They also unpack how Game Masters must constantly consider their audience—often more immediately than writers do—while still steering the story toward meaningful character moments, a climactic boss battle, and a satisfying conclusion. Full disclosure: somewhere along the way, the discussion gleefully veers off into deep-cut D&D memories, favorite campaigns, and unapologetic nerd joy.
If you like the chaos, messiness, and occasional derailment of the creative process, you’ll enjoy this listen.
C.D. Brown's The Sunken Castle DnD module
Keywords: Dirty Magick Magazine, The Red Box, Advanced DnD, Dungeons & Dragons, 4e, 5e, Star Trek, Adventures, TTRPG, RPG, Arkham Horror, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Frank Mentzer, Stranger Things, Jeff LaSala, The Silmarillion Primer, DM Jeff, Play by Post, Roll20, Kobayashi Maru, Al McDermid, Gary Gygax, Zork, Sword & Sorcery, Naked Steel, Tolkien, LARP, The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse RPG, Dawn of the Dead, GURPS: Generic Universal RolePlaying System, GURPS Illuminati, TSR, Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Starjammer, Fantasy Flight Games, Call of Cthulhu, Caves of Chaos, Dragonlance, Tracy Hickman, DS9, Dominion War, Gamma Quadrant, Battlestar Galactica RPG, D&D Planescape, Githyanki, Agatha Christie, LoTR, Gaius Baltar, Lovecraft Country, Legolas, Galadriel, Fritz Leiber, Noir, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, World Building, Conan the Destroyer, Elric, David Mamet, Weightless Books, Yat's That, Escape from the Secret Lab
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By NoNaMe - A Story Telling PodcastOn the next episode of the NoNaMe Storyteller Podcast, Aki is joined by guest co-host Charlie Brown and guest commentators David Charlton and Erik Miller to explore what tabletop roleplaying games can teach writers about storytelling. From building compelling characters and shaping story structure to handling players (or characters) who refuse to follow the plot, the conversation digs into chaos, choice, and consequence.
They also unpack how Game Masters must constantly consider their audience—often more immediately than writers do—while still steering the story toward meaningful character moments, a climactic boss battle, and a satisfying conclusion. Full disclosure: somewhere along the way, the discussion gleefully veers off into deep-cut D&D memories, favorite campaigns, and unapologetic nerd joy.
If you like the chaos, messiness, and occasional derailment of the creative process, you’ll enjoy this listen.
C.D. Brown's The Sunken Castle DnD module
Keywords: Dirty Magick Magazine, The Red Box, Advanced DnD, Dungeons & Dragons, 4e, 5e, Star Trek, Adventures, TTRPG, RPG, Arkham Horror, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Frank Mentzer, Stranger Things, Jeff LaSala, The Silmarillion Primer, DM Jeff, Play by Post, Roll20, Kobayashi Maru, Al McDermid, Gary Gygax, Zork, Sword & Sorcery, Naked Steel, Tolkien, LARP, The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse RPG, Dawn of the Dead, GURPS: Generic Universal RolePlaying System, GURPS Illuminati, TSR, Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Starjammer, Fantasy Flight Games, Call of Cthulhu, Caves of Chaos, Dragonlance, Tracy Hickman, DS9, Dominion War, Gamma Quadrant, Battlestar Galactica RPG, D&D Planescape, Githyanki, Agatha Christie, LoTR, Gaius Baltar, Lovecraft Country, Legolas, Galadriel, Fritz Leiber, Noir, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, World Building, Conan the Destroyer, Elric, David Mamet, Weightless Books, Yat's That, Escape from the Secret Lab
Enigma by Kevin MacLeod is licensedunder a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100241
Artist: http://incompetech.com/