definitelybeholderrpgideas: thelionisbusy: there is NO WAY to avoid tropes!! everything is a...

definitelybeholderrpgideas:

thelionisbusy:

there is NO WAY to avoid tropes!! everything is a trope!! that doesn’t mean it’s bad!! embrace it!!

At a convention, a famous writer once said “tropes are like gears, if you use them well, they can be an integral part of the engine/plot. Or, you can just throw them on the side and make a steampunk hat”

I took that to mean that tropes are just tools, and, if used right, aren’t even really noticed.