Matt Forbeck Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Days of High Adventure: How to Write a Tie-In Novel

Games have changed a lot over the years, and fiction about games has changed with them. Going all the way back to H. ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorJuly 22, 2010

Days of High Adventure

Days of High Adventure: The Art of Writing Tie-In Fiction

If you stumble into the fantasy and science-fiction section of any well-stocked bookstore these days, you’ll notice right away that there’s a section ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorJune 3, 2010

Days of High Adventure

Days of High Adventure: Gaming Fiction

Games are not stories. Games can come chock full of story elements like plots, characters, and dialog, but they’re inherently different from stories. ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2010

Days of High Adventure

The Play?s the Thing

This fall, I started up a D&D 4E campaign for my son Marty and his friends Hans, Isaiah, Roxanne and Ryan. You’d think ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorFebruary 11, 2010

Days of High Adventure

A Bunch of Characters

After I decided on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition for my first RPG campaign with my son Marty and his friends (as I ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorDecember 24, 2009

Days of High Adventure

Game of Choice

This column almost didn’t happen. Last time, I wrote about how my eldest son, Marty, pleaded with me to run a Dungeons & ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2009

Days of High Adventure

Back in the Game

One of the great dictums of working in any creative industry is this: Once your hobby becomes your job, it’s time to get ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorOctober 1, 2009

What Were the Odds?

A Prayer for Prey

When the subject of vaporware comes up, the conversation inevitably turns to 3D Realms and games like Duke Nukem Forever and Prey. While ...

By Matt Forbeck Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2007