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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 235499" data-attributes="member: 4826">Reading Glamdring's posts is what has prompted me to add my two penn'th. Before I go on, Glamdring, I'm not trying to find fault with your posts; I think I know where you're coming from, especially after your qualifying post.So, my point, finally, is about plots in campaigns. In my very humble opinion, a plot is a bad thing, beyond a certain point, otherwise known as a hook. Please, allow me to explain this opinion.If you ever read or listen to an interview with an author, when he (male pronouns for brevity) is asked about the process of writing, how difficult it is, what it does for him and so on, he will almost always say that it becomes exciting when the story feels as though it's writing itself, when characters start to say and do things he hadn't conceived when he sat down to write. This is the process of writing coming alive and it is what differentiates a good read from a printed cure for insomnia.A good game, for me, whether its core is a module or something brewed up by the DM, has this quality to it.Off topic, moi? Sorry.Ranes</blockquote>