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16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices

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The Kitchen Sink Effect

There's a thing that we talk about a lot when when we're talking about a default character, d we've talked about this in previous episodes. One of the things to be aware of as well, with the defaults, ahth the cliches, the troptastic elements, whatever those may be, a is that it's kitchen sink effect. They don't all fit. And it's one of the reasons why a highly derivative stuff feels so flat because it feels like, oh, you just painted a, you know, a a dismy version of tolkan as a back drop for characters to act against,. and the dragons would be eating the sheep. You know,

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