Sentence:  It's not enough to heedlessly scatter characters throughout a game like chicken feed in the barnyard mud because we need an adversary at this moment, a merchant here, or a puzzle-giver there. Characters in games must be more than clones of Vanna White, magically revealing those letters on <WSD>"Wheel of Fortune</WSD>"<!--italics in original-->. Characters have a right to their own lives in the game. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A television game show where word puzzles are solved by filling in the missing letters.