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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6263011" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Plotting out the whole story in advance is possible, but greatly ignoring the great potential of the roleplaying game medium. Retelling a novel or movie in an rpg campaign is only scratching at the very surface of what an RPG can do, while barely making use of any of all the many great options that only RPGs can provide, that are not possible in any other medium. And the key is interaction. Or if you want "true interactivity".Placing mines in a videogame or chosing dialog options is not interaction. It's still just chosing from the pre-planned options with no effects beyond the current scene. But in an RPG, the antagonists and allies of the PCs also have to react to their actions. Everyone gets to improvise, because someone from the other teams upset their plans. Players can chose not to assault a castle but disguise themselves as guards and with some trickery walk right up to the villains chamber to assassinate him or steal his magic artifact. Or they may chose not to go to the castle at all and instead fortify their own base and set a trap when the villain will make his attack.They key to doing this is to plan what factions there are in the campaign, what they want to do, how they plan to do it, and what resources they have.My current campaign looks a bit like this:- Big Bad reads old book about artifact. (Before the game starts)- Someone discovers the artifact and turns into a monster. (PCs might find the artifact, but it could also remain in its secret chamber.)- Big Bad learns about the monster and goes to the dungeon to look around. (And either find the artifact, or pick up the trail of the PCs.)- Big Bad will go to an old library. (If the PCs ever go there, he may or may not have already been there and took the book with the info on the artifact with him.)At another point, two factions are fighting over an imprisoned monsters and want it to tell them its secrets, and the monster wants to escape. The PCs can chose to help any of these three or none at all. It's a bit unfair, but regardless of which of the three gets away with the information in the end, they will have another villain faction to deal with in the greater things of events. But the players don't know that it's a situation in which they can't win, but they know that this could have only happened because of the choices they made.</blockquote>

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