From a discussion on focus over at Vincent Baker’s Ongoing Roleplaying Theory Open House comes this image from an old Dragon Magazine, very kindly dug up and provided by Jeff Rients. It’s a flowchart of how a typical second-edition Top Secret spy adventure was designed to run, and it might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

The chart itself is copyright Merle Rasmussen, of course, but I think the structure and format are excellent fodder. How can we play with this? What other kinds of genre games would make good flowcharts, and what would they look like?