The Only Explanation

If you haven't already clicked on my shamelessly placed social links, you can get the down-low on me and this "blog" right here. Yes, all your questions will be answered, unless they are what color I like to eat, or something else relatively ridiculous. Its orange, by the way.

I'm R.J. and Life of a Polyhedron is a completely different blog for my tabletop gaming stories. That link is for my other, original story holder blog, which includes most of the junk I've written over the last six years. But this isn't about that one, this is about this one. You see, this one is for all those adventures my group encounters through our tabletop sessions. This is the stuff I see in my head when I'm role playing, well, most of it. Some of it just keeps fleshing out even after the game is over and done.

What is tabletop gaming? I'm glad you asked! Best known as Dungeons and Dragons or D&D, pencil and paper gaming is where a small group of people usually between three and eight members gather around, you guessed it, a table and play a game by sharing the story telling experience. To make it more simple, one person runs the game, coming up with monsters and villains, and the other people create characters, usually heroes, to slay the monsters, defeat the villains, and of course, save the princess. Think of it like writing a choose your own adventure with four other people also helping you write it, and instead of writing, you verbally express the adventure. That's kind of how it works.

Oh, you already know what tabletop gaming is? Good! That makes things easier. I play a variety of settings, and usually don't regurgitate in my stories the information you can find on the extensive histories of those settings. Only touching on what is important and largely expecting others to already understand the nuances of the society. I will be posting by session, unlike on my creative writing blog where I post by what I accomplish, which is usually a few pages a day. If the story seems to just stop without resolving in the post, that's because we called it for the night. My group usually plays once a week, sometimes life comes up and that forces us to skip a week. And, of course, if a player isn't present they are usually treated as not existing for that session, rarely will they show up in the session post if they are not there to help the story along.

Primarily, this is a writing experiment for myself. It doubles as a place to share the stories with other players in the group if they are so inclined. Tertiary, it allows others who I have gamed with before, or just people who are interested, in following along and enjoying a little bit of the hijinx the groups I game with end up getting themselves into.