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== '''Necessary Tropes''' ==
== '''Necessary Tropes''' ==


[[Death Tropes]]. Even if you avoid fighting and killing as major sources of experience, you'll end up on the other side of the scale, working with [[Never Say Die]] and so forth.
[[Death Tropes]]. Even if you avoid fighting and killing as major sources of experience, you'll end up on the other side of the scale, working with [[Never Say "Die"]] and so forth.


== '''Choices, Choices''' ==
== '''Choices, Choices''' ==
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=== '''Set Designer''' / '''Location Scout''' ===
=== '''Set Designer''' / '''Location Scout''' ===


This is where you'll get to have fun, but also the place that you could end up screwing it all up. Avoid [[Patchwork Map]]. Try to ensure that the map actually looks like it could be a real world, or go the other way and make it as [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|LSD-induced]] as possible just to avoid any comparisons with reality. But don't stick forests right next to deserts, or make rivers appears out of nowhere.
This is where you'll get to have fun, but also the place that you could end up screwing it all up. Avoid [[Patchwork Map]]. Try to ensure that the map actually looks like it could be a real world, or go the other way and make it as [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|LSD-induced]] as possible just to avoid any comparisons with reality. But don't stick forests right next to deserts, or make rivers appears out of nowhere.


Also avoid [[Misplaced Wildlife]], lest [[You Fail Biology Forever]].
Also avoid [[Misplaced Wildlife]], lest [[You Fail Biology Forever]].