Role-Playing Games writing prompt
Trapped Inside the Tabletop Game
After a cursed dice roll in the middle of an epic tabletop game, you and your friends find yourselves transported into the game's world. As the real and fictional worlds merge, you must navigate the game's storyline, which is mysteriously rewriting itself as you play.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Shrink the stakes to one family, one street, one night.
- 2Choose one ordinary object and show how this world changed it.
- 3Start in the middle of the strangest moment, and explain nothing for a page.
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