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Adventures in DnD Streaming!

I am excited to be playing in an “actual play” DnD livestream on GenCon’s Twitch channel as a member of the Dungeon Scrawlers!

Our group is called The Dungeon Scrawlers because we are a group of professional fantasy authors, and DnD game and novel writers.

A lot of my time the past couple of months was happily consumed by learning to create images (like the ones here) in Photoshop, as well as building out our website and Social Media presence etcetera. All good skills to hone in general, and it scratched that creative itch at the same time.

Randy Henderson DnD Player

I hope you’ll check out www.dungeonscrawlers.com to see info on the players, the characters, NPCs, setting and more!

And of course I hope folks will tune into the live show, currently on twitch.tv/gencontv every Wednesday at 6:30PM PST!

I am currently playing a Dwarf Cleric named Rogar Battlebairn.

Having never played a dwarf nor a cleric before, it has been fun digging into the lore and history around them, and coming up with a character background that I hope will be both entertaining, and provide lots of opportunity for some rich character arcs.

And now, I hope to turn the bulk of my focus back to my fiction (in between the games). 🙂

Rogar Battlebairn

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Where Are the Interactive Books We Were Promised?

CYOA and Adventure Gamebooks

One of my big nerdjoy moments recently was when I found a virtual Choose your Own Adventure book while adventuring in Skyrim, titled Kolb and the Dragon.

And that got me remembering all the big predictions and promises at the dawn of ebooks and tablet computing about living, interactive books.

And that made me think of all the awesome IF games I used to enjoy, such as Zork and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

And then I ran downstairs to our library and grabbed a handful of my “interactive” books, pictured above.

There are, of course, the classic CYOA books, like Space Vampire, and the awesome new breed of CYOA books, like the Choose-o-matic series from Matt Youngmark.  

In fact, he did create one specifically intended to be easily played on your tablet or phone: U, Robot.

U, Robot by Matt Youngmark

Some CYOA books, such as Wizards, Warriors and You, present an option in the story itself to choose between a set of characters, and then continue the adventure as the chosen character, increasing the variety of readings.

But there were also books that tried to take it even further, incorporating character stats and other RPG elements. 

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