Randal with one L

I read a lot of LitRPG fiction. I find it entertaining to see how a writer might justify things like leveling up, finding powerful gear, or using a skill as opposed to being skilled. The genre is young, but one thing I think it is missing is to flip the script. What if a more traditional attempt at fiction was really just the narrative of a bunch of people sitting around a kitchen table playing a pen and paper RPG.

You might say hey that sounds a lot like Critical Role and you wouldn’t be far from the truth. But instead of writing fiction from a tabletop game, I thought it would be fun to write the tabletop game from the fiction.

Thus was born a little side project, At the Kitchen Table, which I will occasionally add a new chapter to when writers block prevents me from writing other things.

Warning: The people presented in these stories are real, but the events are not. All of the victims have given their permission. The vernacular and foibles of these people might be a little insensitive since it is set in 1995 and stars a bunch of high school guys sitting around a table. You have been warned!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28486/side-stories-from-a-dyson-sphere/chapter/426210/at-the-kitchen-table-january-1995

If you folks like it, leave me a note and maybe I’ll do another chapter.