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RPG design: The Essential Reading List

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RPG design: The Essential Reading List

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RPGs: The Essential Reading List

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“If you were teaching a intro-level college class on roleplaying game design, what would be the reading list?”Interesting question.I’m going to design this as a survey/history course.

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VTM illustrates all of the pros and cons of the Storyteller milieu. It is still the game that people talk about, even more than WoD.

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