Chapter 44: In Which I Enter the World of Game Writing

Those who know me well know that I have always been a fan of tabletop RPGs. I spent countless hours in my childhood playing games like D&D, Star Frontiers, Villains & Vigilantes, and Champions. Later, in college, I started playing again and that was my first flirtation with writing for games. I sold an NPC to Steve Jackson’s Pyramid magazine and though I never won, I did well in several open-calls. I thought for a while that writing for games was going to be my future, long before I was comm...