[freeroleplay] Is role-playing about telling a story?

[Samuel Penn]

On Mon, June 5, 2006 10:22, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> http://www.hoboes.com/html/RPG/Gods/?ART=13
>
> Its a good question and I agree with the general points that Jerry
> makes. I think a lot of confusion arises out of the fact that, by
> playing a RPG, you do end up with a narrative at the end of a game.
>
> Thoughts?

The best comment was:

    "I’m going to continue using the word “story”, but in a
     very loose way that I can’t define because I don’t really
     know what I mean by it."

Some people refuse to describe their games as a 'story', or
having a 'plot', which is probably true given some meanings of
the words.

I try not to run a 'story' as such, but have a series of events
which the PCs may get involved with. Creating a story around
the characters is something I don't like, though obviously a
story will come out of the game.

Some people do run the game as a story (such games tend to get
labelled as rail roading when its done badly) however, and
what they mean by story can be quite different to the story
that comes out of my games.


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