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You could also have two villages attack each other in a jousting-like arrangement, but that might be too exciting. You might become famous, and then how will you get your shopping done?

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It can make the place smell a certain way too, but I figure all magic does that, or else how could you tell?

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The premium version will be made of metal and make satisfying clinking noises as you spin it, plus it will have multiple settings so that it can be used for all three books. That might be a trilogy, but it can also be a collection along some other lines.
The temptation will be great to have sentences that only someone with the premium code wheel can read, but it's a mistake. As it is, people will refrain from just looking up the text on the internet because they'll enjoy the process itself, but once they look up the secret message, that's it for restraint. Video game hint books work the same way.

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Naturally they'll still have radio. Nobody will know anyone who listens to it, but somehow they'll still have it.

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Naturally, somebody stuck with a talking animal companion should belong to a different alignment for the contrast.

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Regardless, a society constructed along such lines will eventually require a census to determine the size of each contingent, and oh boy, I bet the people responsible will get into some real fixes.

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At least not a real one, if you know what I'm saying, and I think you do, but let's pretend we don't to set an example, deceptive as it may be.

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No, not Final Fantasy VII. That had a single snowboarding segment. I'm talking about snowboard pirates, snowboard demons, enchanted snowboards, a mysterious tower that can only be reached by snowboarding, and an edgy snowboarder who doesn't make friends. No, not Cloud! He has lots of friends.

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It will also pass by harmlessly if you don't ignore it. Maybe. Sure you want to risk it?

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Obviously there would be a "Lens" command always available. The player would have no idea what it would do in any given situation. Just like the author!

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And don't feel forced to include, for instance, goats just because somebody mentions the year of the goat. That can be another tantalizing mystery.

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Their relationship with dream mages is that they're always pranking them, naturally.

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Should the separate games be kept to separate decks or mixed together? Asking that is to ask whether one has a coward's heart or one that beats with courage.

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The preceding advice is for readers as well as writers. To extend it, for each author you read, maintain a .txt file full of his favorite words so you can make fun of him for it on the internet.

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Another 2450 prediction: the best use for AI will still be pretending to be fictional characters for chatting purposes even though the spaghetti-eating videos will be almost perfect.

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But there's still time for a hero shooter, right? Right?

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We'll reuse the cover as well aside from adding the name of the expansion to it. "So what?" I heard that! Certainly covers today are disposable and mostly ugly, but knowing that we'll be getting more out of them, we'll invest more. We might even go so far as to make it look like something in the book, though quite frankly that's liable to decrease sales.

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Obviously the surface will be coated with glue so the aliens get stuck when they land, but much also will be written of the Mousetraps of Mars.

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If it's a magical talking mace, give each flange a different personality. Perhaps they're former wielders, the sages who gave their lives to infuse it with power, or the villains it was created to vanquish.

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Higher-production works should of course have little chibi pictures of characters as they walk, fight, eat, and so forth.