I want to say thank you

I want to say thank you.

When I was eight, my dad bought me a book from the guys who made our favorite mini game, cause we had just moved and I was sad. That book was the Monster Manual, and I spent three years memorizing that shit from just reading it over and over, till I found a group to play with. Playing made me want to DM, DMing made me want to tell stories, and telling stories made me want to improve. I'd write scripts for all sorts of scenarios, write big histories for different cities; my players never learned half this shit, but I fucking loved creating it. So I want to say thank you, Veeky Forums. Your advice made me a better storyteller, your critiques and suggestions helped me hone my craft. And I just got my acceptance letter to a college that'll give me a BA in dramatic writing. Thanks to you bastards and the tg culture we all love, I'm going to be able to write stories as my job.

Thank you OP, for making a positive thread for once. There's way too much negativity on this board, and this was a really welcome breath of fresh air.

Wishing you the best of luck with your college degree and wherever life takes you from there.

First for 3.5 a best

You don't need a college degree to make a living as a fiction writer.

All you need is practise.

>my players never learned half this shit, but I fucking loved creating it.
Well then OP. A few more tips for you.

3.5 Psiconic has "Object Reading" as a power with a X/day item (forget the name), and pathfinder has the Occultist class with a different version of "Object Reading" (Not sure if there is also an Item?)

Both roughly translate into: "Let the DM expose plots, motives, and scripts that are otherwise impossible to find out." The Occultist one is perhaps a little 'better' because due to wibbity-wobbity wording it allows the DM to exclude plot spoilers on a whim. Playing as one now, as a player, gotta tell you it's a blast to be understanding WHY shit is going down in my campaign.

Glad to see there is some one who knows how to enjoy a game. So thank YOU, OP.

>BA in dramatic writing

Ruh roh.

Congratulations, OP!
Wish you success.

Huh. I'll check it out. Thanks!

user, don't assume you are going to live off writing just because you're getting a BA. Living off writing is really, really damn hard to accomplish

You need to work equally hard, you need to work very, very hard, and you need to push through the bad times until you are where you want to do. So do your best in college, user, I believe in you!

>a BA in dramatic writing
You're not gonna be thanking us after you graduate.