That's an awfully broad brush you're waving around there, especially if you've ever liked a television or film screenplay.I have no desire to read a novelisation of someone's game, and let's face it, a story written by 5+ people (even if all the actual writing is done by only one) is going to suck as a novel.
That's an awfully broad brush you're waving around there, especially if you've ever liked a television or film screenplay.
Most films are created by a writing team only if serial collaboration between writers months or years apart, with no communication between them, can be considered a team.There's a difference between a writing team working from the same story outline and a bunch of gamers making up a story as they go along.
Most films are created by a writing team only if serial collaboration between writers months or years apart, with no communication between them, can be considered a team.
And "same story outline" also ignores the massive and sometimes whimsical changes to fundamental aspects of a story at any point in its creation by people who technically have no writing role at all.
You claimed that D&D players are unlikely to create something as good as a screenwriting team can. I was just pointing out that your argument is flawed, because the notion of a screenwriting "team" is a myth, most of the time.We're not talking about D&D anymore are we?
You claimed that D&D players are unlikely to create something as good as a screenwriting team can.
I was just pointing out that your argument is flawed, because the notion of a screenwriting "team" is a myth, most of the time.
you said:That's an awfully broad brush you're waving around there, especially if you've ever liked a television or film screenplay.