Post by Morreion on Mar 18, 2011 11:26:04 GMT -5
Storyboard: Swapping tales (Massively)
Have a core group; have an open storyline; weave together different plots; and keep the exits open.
That is weaving, in the broadest strokes. It's the art of looking at the macro-story and figuring out how everything can lock together -- it's not a forced series of interactions but a natural outgrowth of deliberate vagueness. In a pen-and-paper game, you leave hooks for the GM to drag your character around. In an MMO, you leave hooks to latch on to other players.
Storyboard: The story of the story (Massively)
...you can't actually plan most of a story in a consensual environment. Instead, what you plan are setpieces and isolated incidents for everyone to interact with, smaller bits of stage setting that weave together into a larger and more satisfying whole.
Have a plot skeleton; short and punchy wins the day; players should have personal stakes in the story.
The plot skeleton should give the loosest picture of where events are possibly heading. It isn't set in stone and can change based on character reactions, but it gives a broad roadmap of events that can be used as a baseline. Running a longer story is helped by making these roadmaps available, either with one person mapping things out in broad strokes or with every player providing a loose individual picture.
Have a core group; have an open storyline; weave together different plots; and keep the exits open.
That is weaving, in the broadest strokes. It's the art of looking at the macro-story and figuring out how everything can lock together -- it's not a forced series of interactions but a natural outgrowth of deliberate vagueness. In a pen-and-paper game, you leave hooks for the GM to drag your character around. In an MMO, you leave hooks to latch on to other players.
Storyboard: The story of the story (Massively)
...you can't actually plan most of a story in a consensual environment. Instead, what you plan are setpieces and isolated incidents for everyone to interact with, smaller bits of stage setting that weave together into a larger and more satisfying whole.
Have a plot skeleton; short and punchy wins the day; players should have personal stakes in the story.
The plot skeleton should give the loosest picture of where events are possibly heading. It isn't set in stone and can change based on character reactions, but it gives a broad roadmap of events that can be used as a baseline. Running a longer story is helped by making these roadmaps available, either with one person mapping things out in broad strokes or with every player providing a loose individual picture.
) Those have to be done according to the event's purpose. At the end of the wedding they will be husband and wife... At the end of the ritual, she will be High Priestess of Discord, etc etc.