7 Things Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me About Storytelling
If you write, you may be tempted to make your main characters good, strong, and pretty—not perfect, but rather unflawed. But that’s boring. If you don’t understand why, then maybe you should play Dungeons and Dragons. Writer Rob Blair Young used to cheat by lying about his dice rolls to make his characters near-perfect in D&D. But after playing with an accidental “flawed” character, he realised the best journeys aren’t about perfect characters smashing through problems, but about ordinary people who become extraordinary after rising to the challenge. Read full article here