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RPGs Are Engines for Making Interesting Decisions
When you get right down to it, what is an RPG? It's an engine for making interesting decisions.
When your players are playing in your campaign, at the most basic level they're doing one of two things: making decisions, or having stuff happen to their characters. Stuff happening to their characters is by far the less interesting of the two -- it's the decision-making that really matters.
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