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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5120714" data-attributes="member: 15470">Great advice from spunkrat here, well before he got to the bit about subverting the dragon-princess trope.I was doing a lot of fiction writing on the web, free and for fun, to the point where I started winning awards and getting a lot of user feedback suggesting that I "go pro". As soon as I started "writing professionally", I got the worst case of writer's block: basically, I felt like any plot I could think of had, quote, already been done, endquote, and wasn't original. It completely stymied me, to the point where I let go of that dream and went back to working a day job.When I started DM'ing again, I found myself facing the same mindset - so I visited <a href="http://www.tvtropes.org" target="_blank">www.tvtropes.org</a>, and set out intentionally to write myself a stereotype by cribbing tropes from the site and filling in names. Seriously, I tossed in something like ten stereotypes in the first gaming session alone. And discovered that, as I gave each of them depth, they got a long way away from "stereotypical". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It was a fun exercise in creativity, honestly, and has left the players with more questions than they'll be able to answer anytime soon!</blockquote>

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