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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5180631" data-attributes="member: 21169">A key point at which prepared material becomes a plot is once you, the GM, imagine it interacting with the PCs in some way.For example a PC has been established as a rake. So you create a beautiful woman who's secretly a spy for the English as a foil for him. Plot, right there. But it would also be plot even if no such PC exists. In fact even if no PCs exist yet. The character works as an NPC because it is likely that one or more PCs will be rakes, as you would expect in a Three Musketeers-esque milieu.Or you create a dungeon containing treasure and rumours of said treasure in the neighbouring village. Plot. Because you can be practically certain that in a D&amp;D game players will want treasure. Because that's how D&amp;D works.It could be said that all that's required for plot-hood is extension through time. In four months the orc armies will invade, if the PCs do nothing. In three weeks Mt Fury will erupt (pretty much no matter what the PCs do). But I think both the orc army and the volcano must occur in the PCs' vicinity, they must be relevant to the PCs, to become plots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 5180631, member: 21169"] A key point at which prepared material becomes a plot is once you, the GM, imagine it interacting with the PCs in some way. For example a PC has been established as a rake. So you create a beautiful woman who's secretly a spy for the English as a foil for him. Plot, right there. But it would also be plot even if no such PC exists. In fact even if no PCs exist yet. The character works as an NPC because it is likely that one or more PCs will be rakes, as you would expect in a Three Musketeers-esque milieu. Or you create a dungeon containing treasure and rumours of said treasure in the neighbouring village. Plot. Because you can be practically certain that in a D&D game players will want treasure. Because that's how D&D works. It could be said that all that's required for plot-hood is extension through time. In four months the orc armies will invade, if the PCs do nothing. In three weeks Mt Fury will erupt (pretty much no matter what the PCs do). But I think both the orc army and the volcano must occur in the PCs' vicinity, they must be relevant to the PCs, to become plots. [/QUOTE]

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