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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9615920" data-attributes="member: 29398">Hat tip, sir![snip some truly cool tales]I think you're conflating emergent (or post-hoc) story with no story at all.  They ain't the same.For example, I could start a campaign by running Keep on the Borderlands, Secret of Bone Hill, and Isle of Dread sequentially each as a standalone adventure at the time and with no real overarching story in mind; and only after the fact might I (or a player, it's happened!) realize there's in fact some thread or other that ties them all together and that I can work with going forward.Or, maybe during that run two characters have developed a rivarly, pursuit of which now supercedes all other activity for a while.  Either way, there's a story has emerged where there wasn't one before, and on we go.</blockquote>