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As you suggest here, scope (or more importantly the appearance of scope) is heavily affected by available budget in TV and film...

Hmm. I was not too fond of episode 3. Leaning very heavily into the YA aspects (which I realise was the initial premise, but the first...

I think it does, by definition. That is not the meaning of "plot" when talking about story. Plot is the sequence of events that make up...

This is an opinion thread, so to my mind it's not about whether inserting these narrative beats in play is possible, rather it's about...

I'll go further and say I don't see very many RPGs that I'd care to play at all that don't operate that way. Maybe a little genre push...

I don’t see DnD as telling a written story, but rather letting a story emerge from a given setup.

You seem to think that I said that there is no story in RPGs, which is not what I said. I said stories emerge from play, in the context...

Because IMO a story is defined after the fact, any part of it that has already happened and is now being told is at least part of a...

Yes. But you said The Lord of the Rings, and that story begins and ends in Hobbiton.

Essentially, at any given moment, the player may choose to do anything (within the context of the fiction and rules). So if you decide...

Something I want to add: long stories are both granular and fractal. Just like a chapter in a novel might be a story in and of itself...

It is definitionally not a complete story.

The story of Lord of the Rings existed long before you decided to just watch the middle portion, so yes, it was a story by then, or...

I do think that deciding that a thing will definitely happen -- or more specifically, that your character will definitely do a thing --...

I would say that how the PCs interact with the world and it's denizens generates events, not story. Story comes from the telling of...