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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 5518662" data-attributes="member: 4129">If they pulled what?  The In Medias Res story outline?  A ground-hog day massacre?  Capturing a single PC as a plot point?  Why would you excuse yourself from the game?I'll assume you are talking about the In Medias Res (as I already stated that I mishandled the two examples I gave).  Surely you exaggerate in saying that you'd walk out on any game where the GM presented an unorthodox adventure structure.  Non-linear story telling is a common technique used in literature and In Medias Res is older then dirt (see the Illiad).Plus, only the slightest assumptions made.  Namely that the PCs will accept the plot hook (and a skilled GM could work around that one) and, at some point, some subset of the PCs will be captured.  Surely it would take more then that to cause you to walk out of a game.  The players have been warned in advance that a capture will be coming as part of the plot and an air of mystery is about the PCs not present in the cell in the first encounter.Now, for those two assumptions, you can set up a pretty grand story.  The PCs who have been captured get to see a lot of things while in captivety.  The players get a snap-shot of information, not enough to complete the full picture but enough to be intrigued.  They get to guess at what each clue means long before the entire picture becomes clear.</blockquote>