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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 3387444" data-attributes="member: 12460">Definitely option 2 (the game is the thing and the story is born of it). The way I see it, there is no point in playing a game (or calling it a game anyway) when the DM is running it under the philosophy of part 1. Ultimately, such a DM will fudge rolls to achieve the desired outcome regardless of how well or poorly the players play or how clever their solutions are. It is the ultimate in "communist" gaming.I would much rather play or run a game where the PCs are actually in control of their fates. I present hooks and contacts to give the PCs opportunities, but how they approach those hooks, and which they turn down, is up to them. Whether they fail or succeed in battle is due entirely to their guile or luck, not due to my desire for them to proceed to the next chapter. Whether or not the villain succeeds in his dastardly plan is dependent upon whether the PCs can stop him in time, not whether or not I want him to succeed.</blockquote>