Do people enjoy reading campaign blogs?

[Snoweel]

Disregard my last; I found his website.

He's interesting but for an aspiring professional writer he has a poor command of spelling and grammar.

 

[Scribe Ineti]

I enjoy reading the novels and short stories of other writers; doing so teaches me something new and makes me a better writer. Similarly, I enjoy reading about other DM/GM's campaigns, if only to pick up some tidbit of advice, good idea, or neat plot twist. Sometimes it's fun to read about another group's campaign just for the fun of it. I don't often leave comments, preferring to enjoy the unfolding story.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

 

[Snoweel]

That's an awfully broad brush you're waving around there, especially if you've ever liked a television or film screenplay.

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.

However there's probably not much difference between said writing team and a poor DM railroading his players to fit his plot.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

 

[charlesatan]

Let me put it this way: some people are great storytellers while others aren't. Similarly, others are great are reporting and writing their adventure while others aren't. So I guess it all comes down to whose blog am I reading. I've read campaign blogs that don't interest me and some that do. For me, it's a question of execution, not a question of subject matter.

 

[Snoweel]

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.

We're not talking about D&D anymore are we?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

 

[Corjay]

I love campaign blogs.

 

[Snoweel]

You claimed that D&D players are unlikely to create something as good as a screenwriting team can.

No, I claimed that several writers are unlikely to create something as good as a single writer.

Then you brought up television and film screenplays.

I was just pointing out that your argument is flawed, because the notion of a screenwriting "team" is a myth, most of the time.

So what did you mean by this?:

That's an awfully broad brush you're waving around there, especially if you've ever liked a television or film screenplay.

What does it have to do with the quality or lack thereof of a bunch of D&D players creating a story whilst playing a D&D game?