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Nathan Caro Frechette's Ice Cream for Zombies

Writing, comics, roleplaying, storytelling and all the queer things

Category: Role-playing

Guest post – Fluid mom!

As a lot of you now know from my last post regarding gender, Vicariously Male, I am genderfluid, which means my gender oscillates from one end to the other of the gender spectrum. Today, I one of my dear friends published a comic on mine as a guest post on their blog. I had originally… Read More Guest post – Fluid mom!

January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 Nathan Caro FrechetteLeave a comment

Vicariously male

Table-top RPGs are important to me in a way that I’ve seldom had the courage to describe. Sure, they helped a lot make me into the writer I am, and taught me a ton about storytelling and collaborative fiction; but much more than this, it helped me deal with a lot of the difficult things… Read More Vicariously male

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016 Nathan Caro Frechette1 Comment

Building a world

Whether you are writing a piece of fiction or planning a role-playing game, world building is a crucial aspect of the story you are building, especially if you deal with science-fiction and fantasy. I’ve written a lot about world building before (which you can read about here and here) but I’ve never addressed the particulars… Read More Building a world

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Nathan Caro FrechetteLeave a comment

Character creation, the GM’s side

Hi everyone! I’ve started writing a regular column for The Grind, a new Ottawa-based magazine which concentrates on all things gaming. The column is going to be called “GM diaries” and will cover aspects of GMing. In the first installment, I discuss what you as a GM can do to help your players develop characters… Read More Character creation, the GM’s side

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 Nathan Caro FrechetteLeave a comment

And now a word…

We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special report! Seriously, though, my publisher, Renaissance Press, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for their first board game, A Match Made In Austen. It’s a game of storytelling, strategy and serendipity, inspired by the timeless works of Jane Austen. Tell your story, roll the dice, and see… Read More And now a word…

May 14, 2015May 14, 2015 Nathan Caro FrechetteLeave a comment

What does role-playing have to do with writing, anyway?

That RPG thing, and what it has to do with writing So a while back, I changed the description of the page from “tips on writing better fiction” to “writing, roleplaying and storytelling”. This might seem as though I changed the vocation of the page, but that isn’t the case at all; in fact, I’m… Read More What does role-playing have to do with writing, anyway?

February 25, 2014 Nathan Caro FrechetteLeave a comment
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