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Writing And Reflections

Mary Catelli

Essays and rambles on aspects of writing from words to research. All free until I collect and publish them, whereupon they are available with a paid subscription.

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Parody And Problems

I am reflecting on some Dungeons and Dragons parodies. Ones I didn’t like.

The problem lay in the way they danced too far away from Dungeons and Dragons to work as a parody. Generally in search of a laugh.

Now, there’s no reason why a sto...

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Talking -- With Style!

Dialog is hard.

High fantasy dialog is particularly hard, and in it, I will single out informal speech -- like, you know, the vast majority of speech -- and speech of the lower classes.

You want it to sound like something the character wo...

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The Writer Versus The Game Master: Metaphysics of Classes

I have never played in a Dungeons and Dragons game where any player played a monk. Possibly because it’s so incongruous.

A European monk, of course, could hold a number of different character classes, depending on his order, but would not...

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Afterlife And Alignment

One thing that gets seriously underplayed in Role-Playing Games is the impact of the other planes on how people would be motivated. Particularly with respect to death.

All right, players and GMs can work around it, even without support fro...

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