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  "path": "/2026/05/17/you-cannot-social-engineer-the-game-into-existence/",
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  "site": "https://bankuei.wordpress.com",
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  "textContent": "If there’s something you want to appear regularly in your RPGs and the answer/advice out there is “psychoanalyze your players so you can engineer them into making the thing happen” what you need, instead, are rules. Even in the most strict, traditional, GM/player power divide, you are playing the game together and making the events […]",
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