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I met Tracy Hickman once, when I was a kid. It was at GenCon. Not sure what year it was. Maybe it was 1985? I signed up for a talk he was giving. It was so long ago, I can not remember a whole lot about it. Except, I remember he went into designing adventures. And he said something like. Consider if you tell the players there is strange writing on the dungeon wall. You should not put that in the adventure if you are just trying to convey mystery. The writing should actually mean something, even if the players can not decipher it. I think the reason that stuck with me, is I distinctly remember thinking, during his talk, that he did exactly what he is saying not to do, in B7 Rahasia. Still, I did not think it was a big deal or anything (even as a young kid I realized you can not account for everything, mistakes can be made, maybe he did have what runes in B7 meant and it just got cut out). Just it was the only thing I remember about the talk. Other than he seemed nice. #dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr