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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4574413" data-attributes="member: 23977">I think what is going on here is that we're kind of talking about two seperate things. I'm talking (and I believe LostSoul was as well) about narrative story. I believe D&D takes a more narrative story approach.Yes, a news story is called a "story" and is a recounting of events, but it's not a narrative. The narrative would be about your "struggle" to pass the test. You go to the library only to be interupted by  a meteor the size of a loaf of bread. Oh oh will our protagonist be able to overcome interuptions and still pass that test?!?! dun dun dunnnnn....  Cool your english class was good? What do you want me to say to that? I learned it again in countless writing classes in college? You learned it in english class because it's pretty much the basics of narrative. The foundation.Rules can be broken, and often are to good effect, but you need to undertand why you're doing it first.I'm not sure what you're getting at here... As it doesn't seem to be related to what I said.D&D games are narrative stories in the midst of being told/written. They aren't fully written until the end of the final adventure of the campaign. Some D&D narratives take the form of the 3 act play. Some are a more free form. All of them will have conflict, as thats pretty much the basis of the game itself. You bring the plot, and the characters, and the dialogue and the choices... but whether or not the final story is about a failure to overcome the conflict or how you DID overcome the conflict is for the most part determined by the rules.</blockquote>

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