Greetings readers,
I know what you're thinking: poems about role playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder? As odd as it may seem this is exactly what the poems contained within this book are about. So why write poems about games? Truth be told it all comes down to experience. Preserving a feeling, a memory, not just in mind but on paper, immortalized. Poems, like memories can be vehicles for emotion, preserving not just the physical moments, but also sometimes the emotional significance of that event as well.
I am a rather avid player in both of the two games. I started with playing D&D in Adventurer's League and even acted as a back-up GM for a season or two. Despite the purpose of the group most of the people I played with were regulars that returned season after season. During my time playing and GMing many little quirky situations would stick in my mind, either due to how awesome, goofy or awkward that particular event was. One particular season, Curse of Strahd, which began at Adventurer's league then continued later as a home game, became a particularly memorable season that started out relatively sane but soon proved to be a bit of a mad-house of a campaign.
Then on an invite from a relative, I joined his homebrew Pathfinder campaign. While I joined this campaign halfway through, I enjoyed myself immensely. I would later join both sequels to this first campaign and a third that was run by one of the other players from them. These campaigns would too leave memorable moments in my memory that, much like my D&D experiences, would fuel the creative processes that would result in the poems in this book.
Now while I will admit that most of these poems are about and were inspired by events that occurred while I was playing, there are also a few poems that are not. I did also to attempt to run a homebrew, but unfortunately it seems as if I don't have as much talent for GMing homebrews that as I do for writing poetry or creating an enticing setting and races. So while most of these poems reflect events of the games I have played there are also a few from the setting of that failed campaign included as well.
There are also yet more poems from neither experienced events nor the failed homebrew. These poems nonetheless are inspired by the spirit of the tabletop RPG experience as a whole. These poems are as a result a bit more generic than those poems inspired by events or the failed campaign.
Whether from fun memories as a player or a failed homebrew campaign, playing these two RPGs has provided me with some of the more entertaining moments of my life. And it is because of thus that I hereby dedicate the poems contained within this volume to all the players I played with and who inspired these poems that I am hereby publishing all to enjoy.