Week 8 Reading and Writing

Overall, I am enjoying the reading work in this course.  I was skeptical when I started this course, due to how different it was from many of the other mythologies and epics I have read previously.  But once I got invested in the stories, I see that there are many interesting and new themes, and I never thought that they would turn into something that I could write a D&D campaign about.  This process all starts with the blog notes, something each DM in D&D learns is how to borrow elements from everywhere to inject in the game, and that is why my reading notes are all designed to remind me of the key things, the characters I can use, locations, and weapons.  The action itself I tend to try to let write itself each week, keeping the original story in mind but taking license with it to tell the story I want to.  This has made me very satisfied with my class project, because I enjoy doing the writing for it and I get to make all the characters behave the way I want to rather than them running around destroying my plans.  This project I also would say is my biggest accomplishment, just because of the time I have put in to the stories and the characters behind the stories

Oedipus and the Sphinx, from Here be Dragons
This is my favorite image of the course, because it is classic D&D style art, and just was a fun take on the original Oedipus imagery.  It really fit with my week 7 story because of the riddles theme.  I liked it enough to make it the banner image for that story in my project, just because the art really went along with the style of story I was trying to tell.

Finally, looking ahead, I really think I just need to keep doing more of the same.  The reading is going well, and it really is just the taking notes throughout and fining that story in each reading section that screams D&D story to take even more detailed notes on.  I feel that I am in my groove on writing as well, so will just continue to do more of the same

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Introduction to a UAS Pilot and Aerospace Engineer

Hello all, I am John-Paul Burke, a Aerospace Engineering Graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and Research Assistant for Dr. Andrea L'Afflitto at the University of Oklahoma's Advanced Dynamics Laboratory.  My hobbies and work overlap, with most of my current projects being the design, testing, coding, and flying of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) also known as drones.  Personally, I own 3 different UAS models, and enjoy flying them whenever possible.  As an FAA licensed UAS pilot, the ability to fly and allow others to experience the joy of piloting is amazing, because seeing the excitement on others faces when they fly (and crash) a UAS for the first time is infectious.  Below are several of my videos taken of or by my drones, with an apology in advance for the quality of the one taken by the drone, due to the UAS being a restoration project and so the camera is not quite up to full quality yet.  Restored Parrot Drone First Flight Test, personal v...
Read more

Week 10 Story: Into the Arena

Image
"Arjuna! Arjuna! Arjuna!" the chants from the crowd resounding throughout the arena.  Arjuna smiled slightly, then loosed another flurry of arrows, dropping all the targets released.  During each shot, the only thing he remembered was his trainer Drona's advice, "See only the head, not the body."  Eager to show even greater prowess, he hopped on his horse and galloped throughout the arena, hitting target after target without fail, prompting even more cheers from the crowd.  Finally, the time came for the greatest exhibition, and an iron boar was loosed into the arena.  To any witness, the next five arrows that Arjuna released were faster than the wind itself, and all hit the boar straight in the mouth, as if they were but a single arrow.  The boar dropped dead, and the arena rang with the mightiest cheers anyone present had ever heard. Arena, from  pinterest As Arjuna reveled in his glory, not all were pleased for the great prince.  Duryodh...
Read more