How RPGs Have Shaped My Writing (and Vice Versa)

Guest Post by Jon Sprunk

Author Jon Sprunk

I will never forget the first time I encountered Dungeons and Dragons. It was 1978 and I was eight years old. My family was visiting a hobby shop. While the others browsed the trains and model airplanes, I spotted a cardboard box on a shelf. The box’s top face had an illustration of a dragon battling a warrior and a wizard. I did not know it at the time, but this moment would change my life forever.

After some begging, my father agreed to purchase...