Is it possible to write a good fantasy novel based on your group's RPG shenanigans?

Is it possible to write a good fantasy novel based on your group's RPG shenanigans?

This is now a "Sorin did nothing wrong" thread

Possible, yes. Easy? No.

It's like storytime threads on Veeky Forums. You never tell the story as it actually happened, because that will involve a lot of pauses, interruptions, tangents and other stuff which happens in the course of a game but doesn't actually make for a good or enjoyable story.

Any retelling of an RPG should be inspired by more than anything else. Take the best of the characters and the story, along with the general structure, and write it all up. Don't worry about embellishing or altering it, because adapting between different mediums isn't something you can do directly.

I always remember something 2D said in the old Shadowrun Storytime threads, that it was the movie version of the game, sped up and focusing in on the good bits. That's the way to do it.

No, because unlike a role playing game, you'll want to follow the rules of storytelling, like having three acts and a character arc.
Especially when weird shit happens caused by a crit of crit fail. It's kind of hard to think of a way how the witch hunter accidentally shot his own foot instead of one of the party members.
Unless you heavily modify it to the point where it's no longer recognizable as your campaign, it won't be good.

>It's kind of hard to think of a way how the witch hunter accidentally shot his own foot instead of one of the party members.

And that's one of the reasons critical failures and critical skill checks are awful house rules that need to be dropped.

It's possible to write a good one in the same world but based on your PCs? Very unlikely.

With a lot of editing yes. That's how record of the lodoss came to be.

I think it's possible, but like says you have to do a lot of editing to distill it into something usable.

Really I think turning sessions into podcasts, videos, or replays is probably the closest you can be to authentically transcribing the game into another medium, and even then there should be some amount of editing or post production to make it not shitty.

>record of the lodoss war
OPsaid good fantasy, user.

I'm surprise there is so few youtube channel or live RPG sessions. I mean there is so many people looking at other people playing video games, so why so few with RPG?