Many of you are fascinated by writing because you love it. Many of you are creative writers, or role players, or gamers. Many of you have a passion for creating magical worlds and believable characters to roam and play within them.
So when Gamer Lifestyle opened their membership course and told us they’d added new [...]
Many situations arise in a RPG where you are required to take control. You may need to lead a scene or you may be playing the villain, for example. The trouble is, taking control can easily escalate into powergaming.
And that is bad.
What is Powergaming?
Wikipedia describes it best by defining powergaming as “a particular way [...]
Deciding whether or not to create a plot for a game or winging it and letting characters dictate how the story unfolds is a subject rife with debate in the gaming world.
Less discussed but no less full of debate is the subject of whether players should plot together, unbeknownst to Storytellers. Is it acceptable [...]
Gaming and writing go hand in hand. For those who love fiction, creative writing rpgs and writing stories about their characters, gaming offers a great chance for a fun career.
There are indeed opportunities to turn your nights of weaving tales, creating characters and leading them through amazing adventures into more than just a hobby. You [...]
What do you hate?
No, really. Not everything in life makes you jump for joy, and there are parts of role-playing games that just make you want to cringe. It’s okay, let it out. I know, smell the roses and all, but those roses grow best in a heap of manure.
So let’s have a bitchfest.
“Oh, come [...]
We come up with some outrageously brilliant ideas every now and then, but our buddy, Chatty DM takes the cake this time. In fact, I do believe I’m a tad jealous I didn’t think of the idea myself. There it is, staring me in the face every day, and the thought never crossed my mind.
Mad [...]
The closing date for entries in our Capturing Fantasy Launch Contest has come and gone, and we were excited to see who the winners of our prizes would be.
We’re proud to offer the books we’ve selected for this contest. The illustrations are well done, the information is valuable to anyone who enjoys gaming or who [...]
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We’ve been working hard the past few weeks, building not one but two brand new sites geared towards creative writers, role-players, gamers and people who just need an escape from reality.
To celebrate our hard work and the launch, we’ve put together a great contest just for you.
Enter our Launch Contest!
To celebrate the launch of our [...]
The entire purpose of role-playing at Escaping Reality is to write an infinite interactive story by collaborating with other players. There is no finish, and there is no winner. There is no Holy Grail quest, nor great mystery to solve, nor one uber-antagonist to take down.
There is no end. This is a never-ending novel.
A storyteller [...]
