My name is Chelsea and I will be your storyteller. I write adventures for a variety of TTRPG’s with a focus on world building and conscientious meaning.

I’m currently available as a GM for online games and writing commissions.

Here I am with my contribution in a Space for Dialogue, Solidarity, Resistance and Creation Durty Words, ‘A bow with no one archer.’ It is often easier to understand the truth of what might be and could be through stories. Though I write what is termed fiction, there is always a true question I pose to readers. The best stories are collaborative revealing of truths we experience.

My Anthropology degree has influenced my worlds. I returned to school for a Masters in Sociology to better understand how to facilitate dialogue for community building and developing agency for social regeneration. My educational background allows me to design rich conflicts for player characters and provide tools for players to create meaningful outcomes.

Dialogue

Dialogue in TTRPG games relies on improvisational skills. For players to feel comfortable in dialogue, we go over Lines and Veils. We align those boundaries within the context of the characters world. In play, each person can understand boundaries, and create sincere, meaningful interactions. Dialogue expresses motivation, reveals values and is the primary location where character and plot develop.

 

Writing

I plan for large amounts of non-player character actions in a city across a variety of social systems. I write descriptions of places that have been ecologically impacted by the strange, planar and magical. I can provide academic writing for a wizards library for a magic system that the group has created to further ground or provide story reasons for mechanics.

 

Storytelling

I have been a storyteller for twenty years. I believe the best stories are collaborative, and reflect the conflicts that we face- but a story rises above the trappings of our life and gives us tools for our own agency.

Here I am in the Isle of Skye. Adventuring, exploring and writing. For notes of course.

The stories we tell grow. If you are interested in creating a story that connects a team, or instills confidence in speaking for a particular goal- we can work together so you can recreate that third space on your own or with me.

 

This is a third space practice ‘Salon du Chat’ in which strangers come together and discuss difficult matters.

This was a project hosted by the Limerick Spring. Salon du Chat used the principles of my Masters thesis by creating a third space through facilitated dialogue. I’m on the right front as a participant.

Check out the projects of the Limerick Spring, Ireland to see about creating your own.