Role-Playing Games writing prompt
The Shopkeeper's Legendary Game
In a world where role-playing games determine one's social status, your character, a lowly shopkeeper, stumbles upon a legendary game set rumored to grant its master unparalleled power and influence. Describe the character’s journey as they decide to master the game, the allies they acquire, the adversaries they face, and the social challenges they must overcome.
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.
- 1Let the hero's plan work, and make that the problem.
- 2Tell it from the point of view of someone who thinks this world is perfectly normal.
- 3Shrink the stakes to one family, one street, one night.
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