Why don't you write a book or make a graphic novel instead of running campaigns Veeky Forums...

Why don't you write a book or make a graphic novel instead of running campaigns Veeky Forums? I want to make a graphic novel or webcomic but I am trash at drawing. I'm sure plenty of you guys are in the same boat.

I don't see running games and playing with friends as a substitute for writing and/or drawing a solo creative work in a different medium.

Because I'm decent at making settings and characters but suck at actually making a story outside of "well X country hates Y because Z, so things happen" and having a general future timeline planned with super-big plot events which may or may not happen.

So I let the players make their own path, with the autistically detailed setting reacting to it, and bam instant plot.

I'm making a settings book that I can sell at cons for $88.88.

I do both, but they're really entirely different creative pursuits. I can't make a dungeon as a puzzle for a story like I can as a DM, and there's very little back and forth even though I have an artist to talk to.

The puppet comic with these guys was horrifying.

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How do I already know there are lesbians in this?

>horrifying
You mean 'great' and also TRUDY WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU WRITE PLATINUM GRIT AGAIN IT WAS SO, SO GOOD. THE WEBSITE DOESN'T EVEN FULLY LOAD ANYMORE.

Because if I did I would either be a nameless obscure author or a really famous one known for his utter insanity and inability to talk to interviewers.
My ideal position is being a quirky author with a non-rabid fanbase, but given I don't actually have any published books and probably won't ever have the time to write any, not counting on it.

The noses?

Because I'm only good at character interaction when I have other personalities to bounce off of. When I try to create dialogue between multiple parties by myself it always ends up sounding incredibly stilted.

I'm way too slow at drawing. I have literally infinite amounts of ideas and can come up with more whenever needed, but I can't draw. Instead, I just make a mess and spend the next four to six HOURS fixing it until it looks like something regular people could draw in minutes.

As for writing, I'm good at it but nowadays people hardly read anything so writing just feels like a waste of time. At least when running games some people benefit from my time and effort.

>Why do a thing with your friends when you could write a story or draw a web comic that no one will give a shit about.
Because unless you get a bunch of hype behind a project (or you're an amazing writer), the chances of your web comic or story becoming popular are the same as winning the lottery.

You would be surprised to learn that the comic is actually devoid of lesbians, user, though I can't blame you for thinking that.

Feedback loops. I run a good first session, players respond well, fueling my desire to run a good second session, etc, etc. With a webcomic it'll usually take more than a few strips to get an audience, which is a significant hump to get over using only self-motivation. And with a book you usually have to write the entire damn book before you can get that response.

The real trick is building a campaign and then translating what happens into a book or comic

I can't draw. Though I would like to do both, or at least write. You can explore a lot of avenues with writing you can't with games and vice versa.

I can't run a successful multi year sandbox campaign in a book, but thanks for the suggestion.

>WiiSport dancing on the bridge of the Enterprise
[Desire to know more intensifies]

>implying all campaigns are narrative tripe

Source is in the filename and there's only 40 pages.

Because i'm an amateur with no formal training and i'd like to practice my craft in front of a small audience who can directly give me criticism before I commit myself to any major projects like a book or comic.

>Why don't you write a book
Have to be really good at writing regular fiction to get anywhere as an amateur writer.

I am working on a largely text-based porn game/RPG.

I've considered doing something like this myself, without the porn. Not something super complex, just some Fighting Fantasy-tier oneshot thing.

I want to fuck that stupid anime elf while she tries to do her declaration of unforgiving vengeance towards me.

As about the boook thing... nah, its different. I liek to see how players do random stuff that I wasnt expecting. They are like characters I dont have control over and makes thing a ton more interesting.

>They are like characters I dont have control over and makes thing a ton more interesting.
>Not creating characters so vivid they're almost people themselves
>Not knowing what they would do in a situation you present, even if it's inconvenient for your story
Step it up yo

Because my campaigns are highly derivative and additionally steal plot details from my players.

While I'm sure I could crap out a 50 Shades of Grey ripoff, I have too much fucking integrity.
Which is a shame really, because if I didn't, I could probably make some decent money.

I wrote a book and I genuinely love it. But I can't make anyone read it, so there's that.

Because my writing would read like a Japanese LN and there's no one who wants to read a LN from some Canadian white boy.

>not playing chess with yourself

>Not writing short stories chronicling the best bits from adventures you run with your friends

A shiggity diggity doo

Because a lot of the books and novels I want to make are, in fact, videogames.
I want to make videogames.
I feel like if I can get just one SICK MECH GAME out of my body before I expire, I will be much happier.

I'm writing a quest

It's like the 5th best thing

though, now that I think about it, wanting to make videogames is yet another stopgap for my ultimate desire:

Creating and producing numerous world ending scenarios and pitching them at each other.

I want to see skynet VS the bydo VS ultimate bio weapon with humanity in the middle chanting "EDF! EDF! EDF!" and dying in heroic droves.


So, instead of doing that, I make videogames. Or run tabletop. Those both have incrimentally less overhead than running multiple umbrella laboratories.

Hey I follow your webcomic review blog, I think

I would’ve expected to see you if I visited /co/ but I had no idea you’re on Veeky Forums. Funny, that. What system you run?

I do both. Writing a story and playing a story are two very different things and if you don't understand that then you don't know how to play, you railroading son of a person.

I want to make a video game instead of running a game. I want to make it in a way where it is middle way between a world simulator and CYOA.

My problem is that I get bogged down in details and as a result, I get nowhere. I just can't go with "simple and easy".

>Why don't you write a book or make a graphic novel instead of running campaigns Veeky Forums?
Players keep asking me to, but I have more fun with the back-and-forth of running a game. Still, they keep asking and I keep thinking about it more and more.

Because I'm kind of guy that's good at coming up with basic scenarios and doing improv, but I'm definitely no storytelling. If I try doing anything deeper than a premise and a few plot beats, I freeze up completely. I can't into creative writing, and have to lean heavily on my other strong points in order to pass as a semi-competent DM. I shine far more as a player than I do running a game, but my friends are all incredibly lazy so I rarely get the chance.

I love playing TTRPGs, so I just have to work with what I've got. My players fill in the blanks and tell the story, and the tools for them to do it are provided by me.

I'm not garbage at drawing, and trying to get better, but I'm not amazing by any means. While holding down a full time job I've been writing and drawing.

But ultimately I'm lazy, and overcoming that is my greatest challenge.

>I just make a mess and spend the next four to six HOURS fixing it until it looks like something regular people could draw in minutes
This is me.

I decided to after I realized that the game I want to run isn't really the one the rest of my group wants to play, but the problem is I'm not really a good writer, and I'm kind of easily influenced by whatever the most recently enjoyed movie/book/vidya
Would people pay that much for a setting they haven't heard of?

I am just so unsatisfied with my own skills. I am garbage at drawing and my writing skills aren't much better. I feel like I have stories to tell but that I lack the skill to tell them.