Being the geek that I am, I prowl Slashdot quite regularily, and I found a good little article coming from industry pros on game design (it's actually more like links to several articles on (url="http://"http://www.rpgcodex.com/")RPG Codex(/url)). May it be of some use!
(url="http://"http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1751252")http://slashdot.org/...2/12/11/1751252(/url)

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hum..
read them, but they weren't really interesting. Maybe someone else will find 'em of more use.

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Oh i don't know some of the comments were cute. I'm not sure you could gather any conclusions from it. Useful or otherwise. But if you asked a hundred people what their favorite game was you might get 100 answers, so I don't know why that wouldn't be the same for RPGs.

(BTW, that was only the second time I read Slapdash. The first was about Micro$oft's shameless copy of the Apple ads. The shameless part was the person interviewed worked for Micro$oft, and the second was they decided she wasn't telegenic enough so they used stock photos/videos or whatever. I didn't actually see the ad though.)

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