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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4994010" data-attributes="member: 66434">The trap of having to conform to certain times and places for the action can be avoided without having to abandon the concept of story and plot. I broke down my thoughts on this in another thread here:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/267646-confession-i-like-plot-3.html#post4991306" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/267646-confession-i-like-plot-3.html#post4991306</a> Plots can be hatched and carried out all while making the choices of the PC's still meaningful. Plots are not the actual problem in these situations most of the time. Plots are often forced to stand in front of the firing squad while the real culprit; scene scripting, looks on and laughs.  When a DM envisions certain events occuring in a particular way and shapes gameplay decisions around making that vision a reality then he/she falls into the trap of scene scripting.  Scene scripting happens when the DM anticipates the PC's actions far too much. When this anticipation is way off the PC's get labeled as plot murderers when in reality they are only guilty of scene skirting.  When the DM has moment of "they are ruining my plot!!!" it becomes time to ask exactly who is having thier plot ruined. Is the plot/backstory really ruined or it merely a case of an unplayed out scene being tossed in the wastebasket by an unexpected decision?</blockquote>

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