So, I play a lot of Neverwinter which is heavily based on DND, and I want to turn my character into a short story, but I need some advice. How would a young man get transported to the world of DnD and why? Is it a punishment for maybe some kind of attitude or an accident? I preffer punishment because it lets me kind of turn it around on the person doing the punishing (maybe a disgruntled sibling or mother or something)
but really, any ideas or concepts or advice or anything would be welcome. Please, share with me your ideas! Shower me with the bounty of your knowledge and experience.
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interesting concept
Given that you may have your idea working I am in favor of an online troll getting his just desserts for his constant derogatory comments against certain people, his punishment being that he is forced to become what he insists on insulting. Whether you want it to be a female version of whatever he insults is up to you.
Maybe it awakes long suppressed feelings? Maybe it opens him up to other lives and in the long run he learns his lesson? You have a decent idea in the making...
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Marketroids
Perhaps an Internet spammer or marketeer gets his just desserts. A decade and a half ago, Jenny North had the SRU Wizard giving a telemarketer his just desserts.
-- Daphne Xu
hmmm that's a good start.
hmmm that's a good start.
MMORPG
Maybe he starts out playing a game, but does something to anger another player, who actually has some magic in the real world and gets him stuck in the game as his character and he has to track down the bad guy in game to get her to let him out.
Punishments
It could be a wrongful punishment -- someone gets the idea that he committed a sin, and it's a total falsehood, but he is still punished. On the other hand, it could be a justified punishment. He'd still be resentful. In between, we have disproportionate retaliation of various degrees. However, punishment may have been used enough. (Shameless self-promotion.)
Maybe an older brother took his younger brother's girlfriend. Maybe an older sister took her younger brother's boyfriend. Various permutations can be used as well.
Maybe a non-punishment accident occurs. With 300 20-sided dice, maybe one combination sends him into the D&D world.
-- Daphne Xu
It all starts with a rollercoaster...
The Dungeons and Dragons coaster! As he and his friends, go through, they're transported to a magical world!
Wait. I think I've seen this used somewhere before....
Melanie E.
The game came from a book...
Someone brought a new supplement for the game but it turns out it is full of real magic....
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Melanie & Erin's comments
I remember reading a story a year or so ago (probably on Fictionmania) where a group of "guys" are playing a game of D&D when they are suddenly "poofed" and find themselves transformed into their "characters" and transported into a "real life D&D world". Some of the guys were using "female characters"...
There is a serial here in Big Closet where thousands of people on the final release date of a new game find themselves on a new world - an "apparent real world"version of the game, where the "game rules" are now real life "physics"??? Back on earth, thousands of people have disappeared. This story is unfinished and the author hasn't posted a thing in months???
I remember watching a (very bad) "B" movie where a wizard transports a human into a D&D like world where the guy has to pass a series of "challenges".
Perhaps a variation of Erin's idea might work. One of the players into "new age stuff" stops in a used bookstore and buys what looks to be a very old book with illustrations (written in another language) and (stupidly) brings it to his Friday night D&D meeting. [back in college, I spent a year with a Friday night session playing (original) D&D - I still have my D&D stuff, but haven't played D& D since 1977].
Foxglove
The story you mentioned sounds like Bek D Corbin's Foxglove http://sapphireplace.com/stories/corbin/foxglove.html
My "Suggestion"
was the plotline to the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon :)
Melanie E.
Ha!
My pal Mark Evanier probably wrote that. Mark confessed in his blog that he had never played D&D and made sure the producers knew that when they hired him to create and write the show which had other problems as well. Mark is the head writer and line producer/director on the Garfield tv shows now as well as scripting Groo the Wanderer with Sergio Aragones. All this and he finds time to blog four or five times a day.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
The time between time
The ancient Celts believed that at times of transition (e.g. dawn, dusk, seasons, solstices etc) the boundary between the natural world and the spiritual/mystical world became very thin, allowing people/beings to cross between the worlds.
Stephen Lawhead made use of this in his 'Song of Albion' trilogy
AFK Webseries
This is a really well made series about a group of gamers who become the characters they're playing - and for at least two of them it involves a change of sex.
https://youtu.be/-6d0PlFmCko
If you want a surreal take on your original idea, make D & D the 'real' world and this one the game.