So, does anybody here write fanfics for their favorite RPG settings? I do, and I am currently writing a Vampire: The Masquerade fanfiction that is a work in progress, and I just posted the third chapter today.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11719904/1/Game-Night

Now that the obligatory Fanfic advertisement is out of the way, I want to know if anyone else here does this or am I alone on this? I like fanfiction and find it to be a good way to kill time and it's very fun. I know a lot of people don't like fanfics, but I do and it's all just in good fun anyway.

As a GM, I find writing fanfics for my favorite RPG's helps me get in the mind to build a campaign for them. So, it can have practical applications in actual games depending on how you do things.

I mean, after all, most RPG's have some storytelling components in them (to say nothing of the whole movement of "Story Games", whatever the fuck those are) and for me, writing these fanfics help flex my creative muscles for RPG's and lets me use campaign ideas I haven't been able to run.

Anyone else interested in fanfics and how they relate to RPG's?

And yes, officially licensed books such as those Forgotten Realms novels count as RPG fanfiction in my book. Also, I know I created a similar thread to this a long time ago, but I don't want to commit thread necromancy on a thread that is over a year old.

God no. But more power to you.

I wrote a short story for Star Frontiers for Dragon wayyyyyy back. But TSR dropped SF and then folded so it ended up unused, as was a new race article. Not fanfiction as it would have been published.

Theres also some in the new SF mags. Im not sure if those count as fanfiction or not as its neither official nor actually paid published. One of those YMMV grey areas. What counts? What doesnt? Never made any sense.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;973123Anyone else interested in fanfics and how they relate to RPG's?

*splashes white gas on thread, lights it on fire with a flare*

Quote from: Black Vulmea;973193*splashes white gas on thread, lights it on fire with a flare*

Is that your RP fanfic of this thread?

Quote from: Harlock;973196Is that your RP fanfic of this thread?

The only kind of fanning Black Vulmea does involves flames.

Never understood this, why not just write your own world and characters? Thankfully it never seemed to catch-on with RPGers, unless you consider shite like Terry Brooks D&D fanfic.

My sister used to write up campaign logs for our Amber Diceless games, and she embellished some of the scenes and details. They were useful for me to help remember what happened in the campaign, but I doubt that anyone else would enjoy reading them because they weren't designed to be real literature.Maybe that counts as fanfic.

When people write about their characters or games, I much prefer to read how John rolled a crit and Jeanette aced her save roll instead of it being written as an in character story or something.

D&D fanfiction exists in a weird context. You have the generic fanfiction, licensed novels and so forth which are indistinguishable from anything else in the fantasy genre. Then you have the fanfiction which takes the idiosyncrasies of the 3rd edition magic system to its logical extreme and creates a bizarre quasi-scifi fantasy world with little resemblance to traditional fantasy worlds. Then you have the even more bizarre fanfiction where the 3rd edition rules are literally the laws of physics and the characters act with the self-awareness that they are characters in a narrative with specific genre conventions.

The latter two are probably the most entertaining fantasy fiction ever written, particularly when crossed over with the first.

I thought it was called playing rpgs solo?

Quote from: Dumarest;973152God no. But more power to you.

This!

Quote from: RunningLaser;973262When people write about their characters or games, I much prefer to read how John rolled a crit and Jeanette aced her save roll instead of it being written as an in character story or something.

Same here. I'm always disappointed when an actual play report on a game I am interested in fails to get into the mechanics and how the GM handled the system. Someone giving a blow-by-blow report of a fight with a bear was what got me to pick up RQ6.

Quote from: Baulderstone;973200The only kind of fanning Black Vulmea does involves flames.

Yes, but he is cooking with a flare, so I approve.

I keep an in-character player journal I write up the day after a session. Mostly because I tend to forget details after a time and this is my form of combating that. Sort of like taking notes in class, then re-writing them as a memorization/study technique. I just do it in character because it helps my roleplay and reads back better when I go over them again.