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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2659073" data-attributes="member: 35678">You know, i have many things that influence me for gaming. Probably the most relevant one to this discussion of "particular stories" is GTA (Grand Theft Auto). Love it or hate it (I love 'em all), they have revolutionalised many aspects of gameplay.Basically, there is a main storyline that you must go through to "beat" the game. Within this storyline there are quite a few side quests which you can do along the way, all of which will introduce you to something new, or just give new spin on an old favourite. Finally, you can just screw around and kill a bunch of crap and make some cash.So, for D&D, this is the sort of outline i try to DM by. There will eventually be an end to the campaign, but i try to leave it open so that it could, theoretically be ressurected at any time (although we would have almost definitively moved on). Along the way, we can do a bunch of other missions and such, or just have a bunch of fun and kill some orcs/undead/red dragons.I would never try to tie my players to the core mission; infact, it could change, depending on what happens in-game. The fact is though if you try to bind your players to something, they will rebel (unless its an in-game issue, such as "if you don't get X for me, I will kill all of your families," says a pit fiend). But of say, you are FORCING your players to take an evil ring to a volcano to be detroyed, and have to constantly say out-of-game that "guys, just go with it, its the whole point of the campaign to do this" then you have lost your players and need to touch base and see if what you are doing as a DM is satisfactory.Hope those examples and such help you decide; its nice to have an underlying theme and storyline - any good novel/movie has one. You job as DM is to try to impliment what works with your players style, and to cut out what doesn't. Maybe they like kick-in-the-dorr style and maybe they like high-intrigue-skillzy gaming. Talk to them, they are the other side of game.</blockquote>

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