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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 5002951" data-attributes="member: 5">As a DM, for RPG campaigns, I do not care to impose a plot upon the players in a game.  I prefer to set up a number of events that might later, but only retrospectively, become plot points in a story that has genesis in the actions of the player characters.  It's probably why I also do not find games based on novels enticing to run or to play.  I do not mind the elements being familiar, nor do I mind if the PCs' actions emulate in some small way those the players have come to know as tropes of any particular genre, but I prefer to give players a lot more free rein in their choices of how (what later amounts to) a story unfolds.(One-shot adventures and tournament games are a different matter.)</blockquote>