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Paul Czege is a designer of tabletop

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. His '' My Life With Master'' was the third role-playing game to win the

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. He is also the originator of the Czege Principle that states, "When one person is the author of both the character's adversity and its resolution, play isn't fun."Lumpley Games discussion
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Biography

Game design

Czege was a member of The Forge and later became a publisher of

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s. He is one of the more influential game designers who started developing games at The ForgeInterNosCon 2011 Guest of Honour profile
/ref> and is considered simultaneously one of the most prolific and one of the least prolific designers from that movement as he released nine games over a period of six years, but only fully published ''My Life With Master'', releasing the rest for free."Small Press, Big Game #6: Paul Czege"
RPG.net column

Games

* ''The World, the Flesh, and the Devil'' * ''Nicotine Girls'' * '' My Life with Master'' * ''The Valedictorian’s Death'' * ''Bacchanal'' * ''Specimen for the Resurrection'' * ''Acts of Evil'' (released incomplete) * ''The Niche Engine'' * ''Honeydew'' * ''Thy Vernal Chieftains'' * ''The Clay that Woke''

References

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