{"id":112,"date":"2017-12-04T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T05:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2017-12-05T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:54:41","slug":"mars-colony-12-principles-of-play-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/mars-colony-12-principles-of-play-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mars Colony<\/em> 12 Principles of Play &mdash; No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Get Caught in a Loop of Speech Making.<\/strong> When people think politics, the most obvious scene that comes to mind is a campaign speech, or a State of the Union address, or even an <em>Independence Day<\/em> style feel good call to action. When Kelly takes office, she will give speeches, no doubt. But if that\u2019s all she does, it\u2019s a surefire way to tell a repetitive tale of macro-level politics disconnected from real people and real events. Instead, find a way to frame scenes about events that portray day-to-day life. Get Kelly out into the Colony &#8212; into the factories and mining camps, into the science labs and schools, and into the commissaries and food dispensaries. Have her take inspection tours and participate in public meet-and-greets. Get her sitting down with real people in district meetings. You can even make a scene about Kelly&#8217;s commute to work, interrupted by events emblematic of the colony\u2019s troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you do, remember the Colony is a fully-functioning society. Its problems permeate every niche, with associated politics from top to bottom. In a small society, politics is even more personal; so make it personal for Kelly by getting her off the stump and into the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Get Caught in a Loop of Speech Making. When people think politics, the most obvious scene that comes to mind is a campaign speech, or a State of the Union address, or even an Independence Day style feel good call to action. When Kelly takes office, she will give speeches, no doubt. But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}