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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: A way to generate fantasy?
Message-ID: <1489@shark.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 06:39:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 06:39:22 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 22:27:17 EDT
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Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Summary: 

In article <2886@topaz.ARPA> brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA writes:
>From: brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (From the terminal of Brendan E. Boelke)
>
>	I am an avid Dungeons and Dragons player/DM, and am wondering if 
>anyone knows if any books have ever been published that were derived 
>from actual games.  What I mean by this is that the characters (players) 
>keep 'journals' which are then compiled into (semi?)coherent form and 
>published as a novel/short story.  I have often thought that some of the 
>'adventures' I have had would make pretty good reading (but alas, I am 
>no writer).

I am not sure whether this counts but Joel Rosenberg has been doing a
series called "Guardians of the Flame" which has three books out and
more to come.  It isn't strictly an account of a game they played
but more a case of the translation of the players into the game.
Seems disjoint and strange enough that it just might be an actual
game they're playing.  Takes him that long to get a new one out, too...

Anyway, I wonder about how good a D&D game COULD be as a story, considering
that they tend to look like bad comic-books when recorded.  (Yes, I do
play frp games, and yes, I do record them in writing, and BOY are they
lousy as literature)

Hutch