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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8817711" data-attributes="member: 7023887">No. Metaplots are bad for settings and the hobby. You can have the exact same stories that you like having with metaplots as you can without them (the Eberron approach). Even good metaplots are bad for the settings they're made for (they give more homework for newer players/DMs). Metaplots are bad for the game. If you like the stories that come with them, read the books. The setting's canonical timeline doesn't have to advance for those stories to exist. WotC can publish War of the Lance-era Dragonlance setting/adventure books until the ends of time with all stuff after the War of the Lance being non-canon, and the novels will still exist and you'll still get the same enjoyment from them. Metaplots are bad even when the stories they make are good. There is no advantage to having a metaplot that isn't possible without one. There is no reason to have them. And they often ruin the settings they're a part of.</blockquote>