Narutaki recently spoke about our up coming Dungeons & Dragons (the 3.5 edition if you were so curious) game so I decided to throw in my two cents about the world of Atman before we started the game proper. I figured a little background on the world would make anything I posted make a little bit more sense.

I could just spew out a litany of fact about the world in a PowerPoint presentation but that is hardly any fun. So I decided to talk about the world though an in-game letter that will hopefully be slightly more engaging.

As a side note I had the character writing the letter use the titles of everyone involved partially because he is part of an organization that uses code names and partially to prevent some of the players who read the blog from being inadvertently spoiled.

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Before this series of posts truly begins, an introduction is in order.

The idea for starting a game of Dungeons & Dragons sprung forth while a couple of friends were in town for New York Comic Con. And since it was during NYCC, it is easy for me to remember when it all happened.

As we were rolling along on the train headed to geek paradise, the subject of wanting to play D&D, but never really having the chance, occurred. We also talked about not having enough friends around to play with, but now with Google+ Hangouts and the like it might work. And then one very important moment, when my friends agreed that it was really hard to find a great dungeon master (and a DM that actually wanted to be the DM instead of play), made things click. I recalled and shared with my friends that Hisui ran a ton of campaigns in college, not D&D but other roleplaying worlds, so it was decided I would inquire about the possibilities.

Obviously, since I’m writing this, Hisui was in.

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