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<blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 1269450" data-attributes="member: 9249">I am not fond of metaplots, as I generally have my own ideas about what I want to do with a setting. On the other hand, a well-written and flexible metaplot will often give GMs something to hang their own plots on, and inspire them to form their own plots and plotlines.&nbsp;Unfortunately, most metaplots I've seen have been too restrictive, and the games constructed in such a way that playing against the metaplot quickly leaves one without material support for the game. In the worst of these, you get games in which, if you are not a part of the metaplot, your characters end up being completely irrelevant to the game world.&nbsp;Strangely enough, the games I most often associate with metaplot aren't the worst offenders about restrictive metaplot-- while I tend to associate metaplot with the World of Darkness and Legend of the Five Rings, the most restrictive metaplots in my experience are in Star Wars and Dragonlance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viktyr Gehrig, post: 1269450, member: 9249"] I am not fond of metaplots, as I generally have my own ideas about what I want to do with a setting. On the other hand, a well-written and flexible metaplot will often give GMs something to hang their own plots on, and inspire them to form their own plots and plotlines. Unfortunately, most metaplots I've seen have been too restrictive, and the games constructed in such a way that playing against the metaplot quickly leaves one without material support for the game. In the worst of these, you get games in which, if you are not a part of the metaplot, your characters end up being completely irrelevant to the game world. Strangely enough, the games I most often associate with metaplot aren't the worst offenders about restrictive metaplot-- while I tend to associate metaplot with the World of Darkness and Legend of the Five Rings, the most restrictive metaplots in my experience are in Star Wars and Dragonlance. [/QUOTE]

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