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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2179448" data-attributes="member: 2205">A comment that I addressed in the very next line, which you declined to quote.  I'm aware that this is my preference, not some universal standard, and I've said as much a few times now in this thread.I dunno.  Is there such a thing as real life without story?  Certainly we can make stories out of what happens to us on a given day, or week, or month, etc.  Doesn't mean those are going to be interesting stories, but they are stories nontheless.  And that's the model I strive to emulate in my games; I put together a set-up, and see what the PCs are interested in, and then I develop the game further based on the decisions and preferences that they give me.  I don't write a story, because there's no plot.  The plot doesn't happen until the PCs do something.  How can a story not have a plot?  That's the distinction I'm getting at.</blockquote>