5 Ways DMing or GMing Your D&D Campaign Can Help Your Writing

Explore Characters

Tabletop games are great. As a DM, you can make and explore any amount of characters that you want to. If you have a fun concept character, but no story to tell for them, or if you want to get to know them really well before you start writing, consider making them an important NPC in your campaign and take a deep dive from their point of view.

Explore their abilities, ways of thinking, their backgrounds in a more complete and in-depth way. Think of it as a thought experiment f...