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March 17, 2024 at 2:26 am #1868076

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1. Constructive criticism.

2. I’ve seen various Discworld boardgames and RPG’s, but haven’t heard much else. Comedy might work as a CYOA book. Comedy, when written well, has an element of surprise, and CYOA’s should have that. At the same time, the protagonist often suffers the jokes. So when you make the *reader* the protagonist, as in a CYOA, they can be put in a tension between choosing the “right” answer which may not be funny or even backfire (because that’s another comedy trope), or choosing the “wrong” answer and finding out that, yep, that was the wrong idea, alright!