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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9285740" data-attributes="member: 82106">I would consider what you are talking about here is exactly plot, and probably what he's telling people not to do. Don't set goals, let the players do that. Don't construct 'webs of causality' projecting into the future, let things fall where they may naturally at the point of contact with play. I mean, I don't know what The Alexandrian would say, he and I think very differently about these things. In this case though I think there's some parallel thinking going on. I think he's basically saying what DW says, which is &quot;Prep stuff, but don't try to construct a through plot which directs play.&quot; The prep is there to give the GM something to say when the players have chewed through what already got said, and maybe to spark some things when the action gets thin. Situations do that without necessarily implying what has to follow from what.So, if I construct an 'Orc Front', it can manifest in play as &quot;Orcs attack the village.&quot; Whether there are prisoners, whether the PCs try to save them, etc. is all going to depend on a mixture of what actually happens in play and maybe the evinced interests of the characters, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9285740, member: 82106"] I would consider what you are talking about here is exactly plot, and probably what he's telling people not to do. Don't set goals, let the players do that. Don't construct 'webs of causality' projecting into the future, let things fall where they may naturally at the point of contact with play. I mean, I don't know what The Alexandrian would say, he and I think very differently about these things. In this case though I think there's some parallel thinking going on. I think he's basically saying what DW says, which is "Prep stuff, but don't try to construct a through plot which directs play." The prep is there to give the GM something to say when the players have chewed through what already got said, and maybe to spark some things when the action gets thin. Situations do that without necessarily implying what has to follow from what. So, if I construct an 'Orc Front', it can manifest in play as "Orcs attack the village." Whether there are prisoners, whether the PCs try to save them, etc. is all going to depend on a mixture of what actually happens in play and maybe the evinced interests of the characters, etc. [/QUOTE]

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