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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8721315" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Sorry, wasn't in reaction to what you said but instead in reaction to what I've seen myself all too many times over the years.</p><p></p><p>"Moving the story forward" can take many forms, though. If for example you're running through an AP and want to move the story forward toward the end of said AP (which IMO would be a metagame consideration, apropos to the thread), that's one form. If you're just going where the tides take you and letting the story in effect write itself, and thus maybe not even become apparent as a story until looked back at later, that's another form. And so on.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the adventure or mission or whatever the party is doing is the story; and afterwards the tales will tell of how the party took down three Frost Giants at once and how near-run a thing it was getting the prince out of captivity before he starved, etc. Cool stuff.</p><p></p><p>Other times it's merely a backdrop for the conflicts and drama within the party which is or becomes the real story; and afterwards the tales will be of how the ongoing rivalry between Jocantha and Chernousse finally came to a head and how Alchene kept playing pranks on both of them (and how hilarious some of those pranks were!) while whatever the underlying adventure was gets buried in the sands of time. Also cool stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8721315, member: 29398"] Sorry, wasn't in reaction to what you said but instead in reaction to what I've seen myself all too many times over the years. "Moving the story forward" can take many forms, though. If for example you're running through an AP and want to move the story forward toward the end of said AP (which IMO would be a metagame consideration, apropos to the thread), that's one form. If you're just going where the tides take you and letting the story in effect write itself, and thus maybe not even become apparent as a story until looked back at later, that's another form. And so on. Sometimes the adventure or mission or whatever the party is doing is the story; and afterwards the tales will tell of how the party took down three Frost Giants at once and how near-run a thing it was getting the prince out of captivity before he starved, etc. Cool stuff. Other times it's merely a backdrop for the conflicts and drama within the party which is or becomes the real story; and afterwards the tales will be of how the ongoing rivalry between Jocantha and Chernousse finally came to a head and how Alchene kept playing pranks on both of them (and how hilarious some of those pranks were!) while whatever the underlying adventure was gets buried in the sands of time. Also cool stuff. [/QUOTE]
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