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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 4894217" data-attributes="member: 9327">BTW, I would like to say to all that if you haven't tried it, extemporaneous collaborative storytelling is a terrific past-time. Orson Scott Card suggests in his book How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (an excellent book for developing game-world writing skills) that this is a great writing exercise that he does in class with his writing students.I tried it with a friend of mine, asking him simply "what would happen if you woke up, and our apartment building and everyone in it was transported to strange grassy field in the middle of nowhere?" For the next several days, we had a running storytelling exercise that started as a survival tale and wound up as an epic fantasy story. Throughout the day, people we met, either for dinner, or hanging out, or whatnot, would jump into our conversation (like Forrest Gump, I suppose), offering their own spin to the unfolding narrative. I found the experience as fulfilling as a really good D&D session, and probably for the same reasons.EDIT: The most fun I remember was the poignancy of the moment that we all decided that the people sent out into the jungle to go scout should be the two guys with the lowest survivability and least contribution to the group: the guys with contact lenses and no glasses, me and my friend.</blockquote>