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No More Tropes!

Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about how to cleanse your stories from tropes during the worldbuilding stage. If you’ll consider the following Jurassic Park analogy: your original story, whose genesis is unique to you, is the dinosaur DNA. But during story development, you might find there are times when “strands” of it so to speak…

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Session Zero

For today’s #worldbuildingMonday post, we’re discussing how to set the stage for your world in a pre-session. Many downstream issues can be avoided here with some simple expectation setting exercises. Get everyone to the table. Your goal in a pre-session should be to play a one-off story – perhaps a prequel – using the system…

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