RPG Memoirs: Fiction or Nonfiction?

So…I’m at a little bit of a crossroads here when it comes to my nonfiction. Many months ago, I wrote a memoir about a D&D campaign I did with my brother in 2003 where I was a bounty hunter named Regal (it went about as well as you’d imagine, haha!). Ever since then, I’ve wondered if I should do those kinds of memoirs in the future. A small little voice told me that if I’m going to do them, why not just write them as fictional stories instead of memoirs? There’ll be more opportunities for showing instead of telling and it’ll feel like a real story. But given how some of those role-plays panned out, they wouldn’t make for very good stories on their own. Under a nonfiction microscope, I can analyze what went wrong and why. That’s basically the point of these memoirs: to show how much my storytelling skills and I have changed since those days. They can either be cautionary tales or legitimate master classes. What do you guys think? Are these kinds of stories better served as fiction or nonfiction?

Coasting

A bowl of corn flakes on my lap

Elderly parents taking their naps

Kitties and puppies everywhere

Gray rain petrichor in the air

This is my haven and sanctuary

Until the day of my obituary

Day after day of feeling happy

The universe’s energy I’m trapping

But in this zone, nothing grows

Nothing to gain, nothing to show

Taking risks is the rational answer

Reason sounds like mindless banter

Too many times I’ve crashed and burned

Laying low the only lesson learned

A head full of voices is all I’ve earned

Broken memories are all that returned

If someone wants to show me the way

We could get it done as soon as today

Those who laugh call this handholding

Those with loud voices resort to scolding

But here’s the truth you can have for free

It doesn’t just apply to someone like me

We all need a push in the right direction

Even if it’s only the smallest correction

Don’t give me speeches about boots in the ass

Use some vocabulary that actually has class

Cheer me on instead of throwing insults

Show me my path without leading the cult

I’ll take it from here, this is my journey

These are the horizons for which I’m yearning

I’ll never forget where I came from

As I claim my place in this kingdom