I am an amateur author who has written a few small, unpublished books. As a kid I grew up enthralled by D&D and long desired to play the game. However, the town I grew up in was small and had no players. In fact, while I use to collect D&D books because I enjoyed reading through them and looking at the art, I would have to go to the nearest city to buy them.
Yet years later, thanks to the internet and some inspiration from popular YouTube channels I now find myself on Roll20. A Dungeon Master who is trying to turn his world from his books into a world that he now shares with others.
The game I run is mostly a typical D&D 5E game, with only a hand full of homebrew rules, monsters, and a few other things. It is set within it's own world made by me, though it does heavily pull from The Forgotten Realms when it comes to other planes, races, and monsters since the D&D books and campaigns largely inspired my books when I wrote them.