# RPG Game Plots

**URL:** https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** game-development
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119 "2018-10-15T04:12:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119/1 "2018-10-15T04:12:04Z")

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This might interest game designers here:

> **[The Big List of RPG Plots](https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-big-list-of-rpg-plots.html)**
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> What follows is a scrap of trivia . . . my collection of  RPG plots , in abstract form. I built this by examining the premises of hundreds o...

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### Author: ![PaulH](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PaulH](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/PaulH)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119/2 "2018-10-15T07:25:26Z")

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Heh heh, nice list. It would be nice to see the same thing for movies.

The list kind of reminds me of the book “Ready Player One” which weaved a lot of different video games/80s culture elements all into one story…

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### Author: ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119/3 "2018-10-15T14:34:35Z")

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There are some “TV Tropes” sites that list ideas for other kinds of plots. Here is one of them. (I linked to one that didn’t pop up a message about 3 free articles per month.)

> **[Main Page](https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page)**
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> the wiki with all the tropes! About The All The Tropes Wiki

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### Author: ![PaulH](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PaulH](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/PaulH)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119/4 "2018-10-16T03:03:21Z")

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Interesting! I love meta stuff like this, thanks for sharing. 🙂

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### Author: ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rpg-game-plots/1119/5 "2018-10-29T06:22:23Z")

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Related:

> **[Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots)**
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> Researchers analysed over 1700 novels to reveal six story types – but can they be applied to our most-loved tales? Miriam Quick takes a look.
