I was hesitant to post on this, but seeing as how I’ve already written over 12K words on this thing, I figure it deserves a mention. Yes, I should be getting the chapter of TTWC1 ready to post in a couple days, but my whole “turn a DF campaign into a story” idea has really wrapped up my attention. Honestly, I’m really starting to get invested in the characters, story and setting. With a few rounds of revisions, this really could develop into a worthwhile entry into my canon and not just a thinly veiled DF novelization.

It really is interesting how this approach disrupts my usual process. Normally, I have everything planned out to the tiniest detail and my revisions are all about refining and, where appropriate, expanding the first draft. Here many of the twists and turns are more of a surprise (though serendipity does still work her magic in my conventional process as well) and my revisions would be more centered on distancing the text from the original source material to better individualize it.

If I’m not mistaken, Record of Lodoss War was born of D&D sessions, so my approach here isn’t that far-fetched. Yes, I open myself to the charge of being derivative, but everything is derivative to one degree or another. What we consider “originality” is really just an approach that feels fresh.

I’ll continue to play with this story a while and see what comes of it. The campaign has almost reached its conclusion, so I should be back on TTWC1 soon. Stay tuned.

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