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Writing Workshop

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DM Craft: Antagonists was a weeklong digital workshop held for creative writers in June 2020 to better practice an element of their craft. It was held over the Discord platform by a small, multidisciplinary team of three people and focused on writing compelling antagonists for online RPGs played in video game settings. 

For this project, we established five activities that would take place over the course of a week that introduced players to the concept of building antagonistic characters and engaging their friends or groups with them. I served as the lead writer for these activities, producing the main text for each day. I then passed this text onto my other team members, who acted as copy editors for this and who created actionable items from each activity. They also gathered resources from a variety of sources to share with our students as further reading. In addition to copy editing, our team also had one member act as a graphics editor, creating several graphics for promotional material and for individual participants in the project.

A major part of this workshop project was acting in a mentorship capacity to project participants, sharing our knowledge and experience with this type of writing. We advised participants and helped them craft compelling characters. We also assisted in graphic/type layouts for many participants, helping them use the Homebrewery toolset to create a professional-looking antagonist PDF for sharing.

We had a number of participants in this project, with seven of them successfully completing all of the exercises needed to create an antagonist. I created an antagonist as an example for this project, for use in In Defense of the King's Lands, an in-development tabletop RPG setting.

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