Willden 1 Robert D. Willden Ms.

Caruso English 1101 31 October 2011

Dungeons and Dragons is invading short stories

In defense of recreating Dungeons and Dragons as a short story is as follows. First, there is no set or said precedence in recreating Dungeons and Dragons as a short story. Second, the creative stories produced by those whom assume the role of a dungeon master are not recorded, published, nor shared. Lastly, it will be a novel idea to see works of those who fill the role of the dungeon master. In this first attempt, this student had to come at this from two perspectives simultaneously to create a short story. The said two perspectives are the perspective of the dungeon master and the perspective of the player. This student will discuss the former perspective and then the latter perspective. Please note that this student had to use the Dungeon Masters guide book and the players handbook, which are used within the Dungeons and Dragons game, to aid this student to accomplish the genre recreation. As a DM (Dungeon Master), this student had to select the genre of the story to be a murder mystery. There is a solid fan base for a murder mystery. This murder mystery will be purely fictional. Then, this student had to create a beginning, plot, and ending of

Willden 2 the short story as well as villains, secondary characters, mythical beasts, time, and where this story takes place. A familiarity of legends and lore of the ancient past was imported into the story. Also, the ebb and flow of a story is taken into account. On to the perspective of the player, the first issue to address is on how many characters that will be involved. Normally, within DND (Dungeons and Dragons), a group of four to six players will play through the story that the DM has created. The size of the group will add a larger element of dynamic creativity to the story. Initially, this student, whom has taken on both roles of the player and the DM of DND, wanted to have a group of six protagonists. An axiom came to this students mind, Smaller is better. So, this student had chosen a group of four. Now onto the character creation process, using the DND players handbook, this student began to create the protagonists of the story. For each character, a dossier was created. Within each dossier, a name, gender, age, height, weight, ethnicity, nationality religious views, clothing, equipment, profession, background and etc. After these creative processes were done, it is now time to write the short story. A prologue was needed to give some sort of back story that relevant to the story as a whole. Thus aiding the reader to get some grasp or bearing on the story before it actually begins.