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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More

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The Importance of Hospitality in a Tabletop Game

What might be a lovely act of politeness in one place doesn't work as well in the other. In short fiction, sometimes you'll just throw a detail in that you're never going to follow up on. But when you do that in a tabletop game, people will be like, what's in that door? Why can't I go through that door? What's behind that door? And so it's actually sort of rude to suggest things that you're not planning to following up on.

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