The blank page looms before you, the prompt taunts you, and you’re feeling completely and totally out of ideas. You want to write a story, but where do you start? How do you start? When all the ideas have been had and there’s nothing new under the sun, how do you create anything at all, much less something awesome ( Read more... )

I had all the manuals spread out in front of me. Heidi had decided to play a half-elven warrior. Michelle was going to be a halfling rogue. And Kirk, who would be running the game, said I could be a pixie bard. There were just some tables I had to roll on - some disadvantages I had to take, for playing a ‘monstrous’ character ( Read more... )