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Daughter of Redwinter Q5: Gaming origins
Ed McDonald says of himself that he is "passionate about fantasy tabletop role-play games". Did this show itself in the story? The magic scheme? The interactions between characters? Did this feel like the narration of some gaming sessions? Why or why not?
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Well, it showed in as much as there was a sense that magic made sense, rare in fantasy games, but often botched about. It didn't read like a game narration to me, though. Games are most of the time incoherent unless you were there.
I agree with Clash, it didn't really feel like a game narration to me. Though I do think it probably bears a decent resemblance to the kind of game narration you find on Critical Role (a TV show in which actors perform a live 'professional' roleplaying experience). But Critical Role gaming usually comes across to me as Capital F Fake as far as being a gaming experience, too.
Exactly my take as well!
Maybe he's working out a world setting into which he can drop PCs at some future stage for their own adventures?
I actually just did that, with a prelude campaign set in our world in 2023, to set up the eventual magitech SF campaign, set in 2123.
Now if only you'd written a book set in that world that you cold point to and say "just read that first"
There ya go!