User blog comment:Carol of the bells/Days of Ruin --- Zen's exile, part 48/@comment-25002135-20150705062602/@comment-25002135-20150706014527

Well, you see, there's this thing where when you adapt something like that into another form, you should do it in such a way that it's still entertaining.

Given the nature of roleplaying, if neither side refuses to back down then it can last for many hours. But translating that word for word into a written battle intended to be read is an entirely different matter.

Just trying to convert that into a story, by itself, was a bad idea in the first place imo, since it was simply a fight scene without any background. On the other hand, if I included the background story, then we would have a proper story on our hands with fight scenes included—but to keep the story interested, a lot of the fighting and extra detail put into them would probably be cut out for the sake of the story.

Put simply, this is the kind of issue that anime studios have when they try to adapt another media into an anime—what to leave in and what to keep, all while trying to keep it entertaining (and potentially still accurately depicting the original source)

If I had to properly adapt that roleplay session into a battle, I probably would have left out a lot of events that occured in the battle, but then again that's just my writing style. There are some people (and writers) who enjoy fight scenes more than I do after all, lol. (Not that I hate fight scenes, either)

Admittedly, what I did was simply an experiment, but it was still a failure of a story imo, even if it was a good experience for me.