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Questions tagged [roleplaying]

Questions related to writing in any role-playing context, over any media (by chat, forum or email), or for discussion of roleplaying games (RPG) of various sorts.

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Can I write a book of my D&D game?

I am a long time Dungeon Master of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder. My games run in a custom world of my own making. However, I utilise a lot of the traditional lore and races of D&D. I'm quite proud of one of my current storylines and have been…
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How to create a consistent feel for character names in a fantasy setting?

Recently while doing some world-building for a role-playing game with a friend we were seriously struggling with naming character consistently. By consistently I mean make the names feel as though the belonged to the same culture or race. We had a…
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Alternatives to Second-Person POV Narration

I am someone with no formal writing background, who has come to love writing for the fantasy adventure role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (fifth edition) during my free time. I am currently running the adventure that accompanies the Starter Set…
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How to write exciting updates?

For my Pathfinder campaign I write an update each session which I share with my players. The goal for these updates is: Provide a brief recap of the previous session Get people excited for the next session Be entertaining Provide some additional…
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Is it necessary to include humans in a world to make the world seem more grounded and realistic?

I am making a continent for a RPG that I am planning to run. I am currently running one on a different continent in the same world. That world has Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halfings and a handful of other less common / well known races. I wanted to…
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Writing vs roleplaying (by forum)

In the latest years, i've developed my two main writing-related hobbies: "Conventional" writing: short stories and a wanna-be novel, far from being completed Roleplaying in a forum Roleplaying, aside from being fun, has helped me grow a lot as a…
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How to determine which details are important enough to be mentioned in a text-based roleplay?

I have recently joined a real-time chat-based roleplay group. Most of the people seem to be sticking to 100 to 250 words when it comes to making their posts, but sometimes I get overly descriptive and cause my roleplay partners to wait, and…
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Why do most authors shed their LitRPG elements as the stories go? Is it a genre convention?

In almost all the LitRPG stories I read, the start of the stories is full of system messages, +1 here and there, even damage prompts saying "Goblin hits Hero for -8 HP". Classes, skills, experience points galore. For those that don't know, LitRPG…
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How do I record information when planning to write a recap of events?

For my pathfinder game I write session updates after each session. I have previously asked about How to write exciting updates? This question is about the planning phase for writing these updates. During game sessions I intend to take brief notes to…
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Where can I find resources about writing a litRPG book?

Where can I find (preferably free) online resources, such as How-To-Write or styleguide articles and blogs, about writing a litRPG book? LitRPG, or Literary Role Playing Game, books combine elements that you would find in RPGs with science-fiction…
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Can I adapt writing in a RPG forum to writing in a book?

To explain how the RPG forum works: Somebody proposes a Story setting in which the world, rules, possibilities, and so on are described. Then the interested players gather and create their character (sometimes 2 or more are possible). If the…
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How to write realistic character dialogue in the vibe of The Eleventh Doctor from Doctor Who

So, I'm writing a character who's sort of like The Eleventh Doctor, specifically the very AUDHD, neurodivergent side of him and I'm not sure how to portray the dialogue, how to even begin studying to try and write the way he speaks the very…
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How can I make my roleplay responses like a novel, while still letting the other person reply?

I've been having this problem with a lot of my roleplays. Usually, my responses are 70-160 characters and around 20 words. Here are some examples: In front of her is a waterfall, and she's sitting on the ground. She isn't really doing anything,…
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What are some widely understood incremental injury adjectives?

I'm looking for adjectives to describe incremental degrees of injuries of various body parts for an RPG system. They should be both intuitively understandable and rankable to an average English speaker. That is, if the list of injury terms was given…
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How to Role-Play an eldritch god?

I am currently trying to figure out how to write the actions of an eldritch god that I've created in a Role-Play setting that I have with a few friends, this setting is mainly based on the SCP Universe, although heavily modified. The god is called…
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