Design of roleplaying games

[Tulpa]

I am still making a tabletop rpg

I’m quoting this here and adding a bit more to make this advice actually somehwat actionable instead of just vague. You can, and probably want to, embed setting information right into character creation, and there are a number of ways to do this. Dungeons and Dragons tacitly does this, and the best approaches to DnD are the ones that acknowledge that there’s an implied setting that arises from minor things like choosing your alignment, picking what class you will play as (and the list of class…

Here’s a post I made on this very forum that explores some of my own views on RPG design.