For my series RPG Storytime, I take stories generated out of role playing games, and I make narrated videos and podcasts out of them. The finished videos tell the stories like audio books or radio dramas. I tried to tape the games live, but some of my players were shy, and ultimately I’m just not good at improv, so I don’t think they would have come out very good. I’ve also fixed some dramatic elements before telling the story, so they wind up better.
As
a result, an interesting thing has come to my attention. This method I use makes the role playing game
itself the writers’ room. Rather than
the players being performers, like they are in other RPG shows, they are my
fellow writers.
