This Is How You Play Dungeons And Dragons
A downloadable zine
Here is a collection of games I have played while growing up with the Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks, which would not usually be called Dungeons and Dragons. When the rulebooks could not do what I wanted for me, or when I couldn't do what the rulebook wanted from me, I wrote games that could. Here are some of the first lyric games I ever wrote, many years before I properly knew a lyric game was something you could write.
This zine contains:
- One essay about my history with the D&D rulebooks
- Six games you can play with your RPG rulebook of choice
- Rulebook art by yours truly, and by the wondrous Loren Sherman
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What is a lyric game?
Oh man, that's honestly like, the million dollar question. Nobody really knows! But I'm basically using the term to mean a game that's written more poetically, and more about a concept, or how the rules set makes you feel than a game that's really intended to be played. I don't have super sophisticated thoughts on this, but I really like the way that Jay Dragon writes about it in Ritual Almanac: https://archived-pcg.itch.io/ritual-almanac-1
Thanks!
How did you break into my childhood and steal these thoughts out of my past?
It does my heart such good that people are finding this relatable <3