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<blockquote data-quote="Peni Griffin" data-source="post: 3386720" data-attributes="member: 50322">I am a professional storyteller who considers the game a shared art form and I do not fudge die rolls.&nbsp; If you get to the point where&nbsp; fudged die roll is the only way to save your story, you haven't done your job.&nbsp; It is common, in a certain kind of literary criticism and even in teaching writing, to set up a false dichotomy between plot and character.&nbsp; The plot is what the characters do; the characters are the people whose actions create the plot.&nbsp; Some writers work out the plot first and (with a greater or lesser degree of success) let the characters emerge from that; some start with a character and (with a greater or lesser degree of success) chronicle the plot which that character's actions create.&nbsp; Only if the writer does his job badly do the requirements of one force the other into a false shape.Most dichotomies are false.&nbsp; Perhaps those of us who don't find the choices adequate would be able to answer better if we understood what facet of the game you were trying to illuminate by asking the question and expressing it as a binary system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Peni Griffin, post: 3386720, member: 50322"] I am a professional storyteller who considers the game a shared art form and I do not fudge die rolls. If you get to the point where fudged die roll is the only way to save your story, you haven't done your job. It is common, in a certain kind of literary criticism and even in teaching writing, to set up a false dichotomy between plot and character. The plot is what the characters do; the characters are the people whose actions create the plot. Some writers work out the plot first and (with a greater or lesser degree of success) let the characters emerge from that; some start with a character and (with a greater or lesser degree of success) chronicle the plot which that character's actions create. Only if the writer does his job badly do the requirements of one force the other into a false shape. Most dichotomies are false. Perhaps those of us who don't find the choices adequate would be able to answer better if we understood what facet of the game you were trying to illuminate by asking the question and expressing it as a binary system. [/QUOTE]

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