The TideMarsh Chronicles

by Tim Brown

Role playing games have been around for eons. Their popularity has ebbed and flowed with the creation of ever more bizarre and challenging scenarios for their players to experience. Never quite main stream but always present and relevant within the game world.
The settings present players with an opportunity to exist in a world very different to their own, more interesting and dynamic and consequently far more dangerous.
These worlds are shaped and moulded by a host 'dungeon master' into a form of interactive and living novel with its own characters, timeline and particular rules. The participants will live within this huge open ended experience as sleuths, warriors, wizards or whatever they desire to overcome the challenges set before them. They will have to manipulate those around them with subtlety and fight against insurmountable odds, whilst living hand to mouth and trying to figure out exactly what is going on. Their lives balanced on the whim of a set of dice.
Here then is the tale of such a group from their very inception through the first campaign in a colourful no holds barred account. Follow them throughout success and more often than not disaster and find out how they coped with that, and each other.
Bought to life by the cruel machinations of a very experienced Dungeon Master and the twisted mind of a manic author this account tells just how it happened, and a bit more (probably quite a lot more).
Illustrated randomly by the author and 'Memsahb', this game was played by adults and the content is uncensored. If you are easily offended then I politely suggest you read something else.

577 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2024

About the author

Tim W. Brown was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. In 1983 he graduated summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University with a degree in American studies. He is the author of four published novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001), Walking Man (2008), and Second Acts (2010). His fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea, Chiron Review, Colorado Review, The Fiction Review, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, New Observations, Oyez Review, Pleiades, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Rockford Review, Slipstream, Small Press Review, and Storyhead. A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that citys literary scene as a writer, performer, and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003. He currently earns his living as a writer at Bloomberg."