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The Storyteller’s Dictionary Reviewed

Jeff McAleer

Sep 15, 2024

Title: The Storyteller’s Dictionary

Publisher: Troll Lord Games

Authors: Stephen Chenault, Tim Burns, Kim Hartsfield, Mark Sandy, and Jason Vey

Cover Artist: Jason Walton

Year: 2023 edition

Genre: Dictionary aimed at writers, game designers, adventure creators, Game Masters, teachers, and students

Pages: 320 pages

MSRP: $34.99 for the hardcover or $19.99 in PDF

I bring you a quick review of the Storyteller’s Dictionary as Troll Lord Games month rocks on. The hardcover provides plenty of definitions of words and terms found in genre writing and tabletop games. It’s also very helpful the dictionary is divided into chapters based on topic and further broken down into categories. The volume is squarely aimed at writers of all types, GMs, teachers, and students.

The book is also currently part of a special bundle which also includes The Storyteller’s Thesaurus for $49.99.

SUMMARY

The Storyteller's Dictionary is firmly aimed at writers of all sorts, as well as teachers, students, game designers, and GMs. A great source to find out what various words, you'll encounter in genre writing and roleplaying games/adventures, actually mean. You'll find the volume and extremely useful learning tool too! This is certainly a welcome reference book.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.