* The Strong National Museum of Play blog // “Diving into D&D”
During the summer of 2018, I had the honor of accepting a Mary Valentine and Andrew Cosman research fellowship in the archives of the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. For the novel I’m writing, I’ve been looking at how Dungeons & Dragons and other interactive games and RPGs might participate in ancient traditions of oral storytelling.
Here’s the excerpt:
“Back before we had blogs or even pencils and paper, humans told each other stories in caves and around the cooking fires. Epic poets would recite their tales from memory and for hours at a time, and these tales would be retold and embellished in much the same way the fish I caught a few summers ago has grown progressively larger every year since. That’s how stories work.”
The museum recently shared my research summary on their blog. You can read the whole post here.