RPG Fiction and Campaign Write-Ups

Welcome to a world that has nineteen years left to live. In nineteen years, on the one thousand twentieth year of the Zioth, all five moons will leave the sky for a night, and the world will be destroyed and rebuilt. But who can believe such legends in a world at its prime? Everything is normal. The strange creatures of legend are nowhere to be seen, and magic? A story to put children to sleep. The Coming of the Zioth is my own PBeM, which has been running since 1996. It includes a huge number of game turns in prose form and lots of game world information. The Coming of the Zioth D&D Campaign.

Five thousand years ago, the dragon Rokuchiankamphan was trapped beneath the earth before he could destroy the world. Now he is rising again, and no one is aware of this but the mysterious Sensei and the eight monks he has trained from birth for just this purpose. I played in this game from 2003-2005. There are multiple character journals, including a pretty complete one written by me. This also includes a few custom magic items and house rules. The Wrath of the Talons.

A game I played in for a bit in 2005, which is a good example of why not to play the party traitor. Letters from Jack.

Joe Wood is just an ordinary guy, working in an ordinary town to make a living. Yeah, he has a bit of a reputation, but don't you dare call him an adventurer! Heros_Backpack from the wizards.com boards wanted to see whether you could have fun playing a commoner, and here's what came of it. Commoner Campaign.

A complete world, including a complete and very entertaining character journal and a few smaller journals. The Kingdom of Hurva.

This is organized in play-by-post form rather than written up as prose, but the game has been going on for a really long time, and has close to a thousand chapters! The Adventurers.

A complete world, with a ton of character descriptions, spells and more. Also has journal entries from multiple characters. World of Sulerin.

The Brilliant Gameologists boards include a forum for campaign journals. There's a lot of reading material there. Brilliant Gameologists.

Character journals from three campaigns. Crunchy Bites.

A few AD&D PBeM campaigns in prose form, from the late 90s. Net Novels.

Torture Story: This is a game-segment written up by a poster to rec.games.frp.dnd. It is an excellent and well-written example of using torture to create fear in a game.

Kismet's D&D: A campaign by Patricia Willenborg. Includes articles on D&D and lots of other interesting stuff.