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11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games

Writing Excuses

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How to Write a Good Game

For me, actually, fiction is very hard because I'm a horrible plotter. In game design, it's all character and world building and sort of rules. And then it's like a choose your own adventure, right? So I get to make this baseline and then send it out and watch everybody else do all the plotting. That's my big joy about writing games. Michelle, can you send our listeners home with a writing prompt? Sure. Drill down to find one person who's not your heroic character and write that. You are out of excuses. Now go right.

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