Comments on: Is planning a gamebook like designing a tabletop campaign? http://destinyquestinfinite.com/2015/05/12/is-planning-a-gamebook-like-designing-a-tabletop-campaign/ Forge a Story - Build a Legend Sat, 16 May 2015 07:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: mikeatcampaignmasterydotcom http://destinyquestinfinite.com/2015/05/12/is-planning-a-gamebook-like-designing-a-tabletop-campaign/#comment-107 Sat, 16 May 2015 07:08:31 +0000 http://destinyquestinfinite.com/?p=2748#comment-107 In reply to Yuliya.

My pleasure, Yuliya 🙂 Hope they are useful to you and your fellow creators!

]]> By: Yuliya http://destinyquestinfinite.com/2015/05/12/is-planning-a-gamebook-like-designing-a-tabletop-campaign/#comment-106 Fri, 15 May 2015 22:25:30 +0000 http://destinyquestinfinite.com/?p=2748#comment-106 Thanks for the excellent links!

]]> By: mikeatcampaignmasterydotcom http://destinyquestinfinite.com/2015/05/12/is-planning-a-gamebook-like-designing-a-tabletop-campaign/#comment-105 Fri, 15 May 2015 17:37:13 +0000 http://destinyquestinfinite.com/?p=2748#comment-105 Excellent article, I’m glad I could inspire such a creative perspective on the subject. I agree completely with what you’ve said, and would be remiss if I did not point out that both share many attributes with more “normal” dramatic writing – conflict, resolution, characterization, and all the other tools of literature. In fact, I have found the analysis of existing writing and dramatic presentation in cinema and television to be excellent source of insights that can be of benefit to RPG GMs who want to improve their games (and a few surprises along the way, like plot twists – all the traditional structures of twist fail in an RPG setting because the player characters have choices; I would not be surprised to learn that the same phenomenon applies to gamebook writing as well. I had to invent whole new forms of plot twist for RPGs – you can read about them (with a view to assessing their validity to gamebooks) by following this link: http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/pretzel-thinking/ for part one and http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/lets-twist-again/ for part two of the list.

Again, thanks for the link to my website and for the compliment implicit in that link 🙂

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