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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2654412" data-attributes="member: 16989">'Novelist' as a negative descriptor.In a novel, the writer holds all the power (editors excused).  Wether a character hits, misses, succeeds, fails is all determined by the writer.A novelist Dm is one who KNOWS what is going to happen & there ain't anything a PC can do about it.  The villain will not die until he wnats him too, the players will never be able to accomplish something unless the DM wants them too.On the Flip side, if he EXPECTS the PC's to succeed at something, they will, no matter how poor their rolls or stupid their actions.Players are completly optional in a true 'Novelist's' campaign, as what they will do/not do has been pre-determined.Semi-Trained monkeys will work just fine.</blockquote>