The joy of PnP and why I miss it

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I do love it when a plan goes wrong.

Especially when it's something you've been working towards for a long time. To clarify, I mean in the gaming sense. In real life, it sucks when it all goes wrong, but in a RPG there's nothing more entertaining than digging youself out of hole you've made. Or watching your players dig out of hole they made.

The best memory I have about this a Dark Heresy game I was running last year for some close friends. The set up was their Inquisitor had sent them to investigate some weird as fuck statues at a noble's party, then travelling a planet of statue builders. Upon arrival, and introduction to the collective rulers of the planet The Guild of Families, they made a massive faux pas immediately after being warned of it. These families have gone to war over the question of who is better sculptor more times than they care to count, so of course the first question from someone's mouth is "We'll investigate with the best family first and then work our way down, who would that be?"

Cue five weeks of political buggery resulting in them unearthing a genestealer cult.

I love things like this. This awesome freedom of creativity that you can only get from five people sat in a room trying to work out what the fuck is going on. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's so alive.

It's something I can't grasp in my writing.

I've tried bouncing ideas off of people, but it doesn't have the same fling. I have an idea of where I want to take a story, but it's nowhere the same feeling as playing off an organically created character who you have no influence over. Trying to do this by yourself with multiple characters is a hard task, it's probably why I liked A Letter, Unsent so much: it was easy. One view, one idea, go.

That's not to say I'm giving up. A sailor never learns on calm waters and all that, I need to keep pushing to develop as a writer. I need feedback and nitpicks, things to dig at my processes and point out flaws in my writing. It's taken some time, but I want that criticism. Negative, positive, so long as I can learn from it and grow I'm up for anything.

Also I miss putting on silly accents. My Techpriest had an awesome floaty voice when she got giddy over tech... I miss that.

Also tagging Waking the Dead because new chapter soon. Git ready for the "behind the scenes" shit I'm scribbling.
Also Spotify playlists.
Character songs ho!