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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 4693137" data-attributes="member: 5265">I hesitate to react to this, because it's entirely tangential to my point, but I can't help myself.I completely reject this notion. I'm running a campaign now that is following a very distinct story arc. We've been playing for a year and a half, and there's likely another year of play ahead of us before we reach the conclusion.You're basically saying this campaign is a tree falling in the forest--that if nobody talks it out after it's done, the story never existed. That's hogwash. The story exists within the minds of the players, regardless of whether they write it down or talk it out.Completion has nothing to do with it either. An unfinished story may be unfinished, but that doesn't mean it's not a story. If I sit down with a novel, does it fail to be a story until I finish the last page? It may fail to be a complete story, but it's a story nonetheless.</blockquote>