Metaplots: Those wretched things that pencil-and-paper RPG writers inflict on us because they can't get it through their heads that they're not writing a fucking novel.
ARGH! I hate metaplots. They seem to be nothing so much as a way to steal player creativity and channel us into mindless game-violence, by denying us players a meaningful existence in the gameworld.
Does anybody have a good, compelling reason to have these horrid things?
I Never Metaplot I Liked...
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I Never Metaplot I Liked...
"Carriers dispense fighters, which dispense assbeatings." - White Haven
| Hyperactive Gundam Pilot of MM | GALE | ASVS | Cleaners | Kibologist (beable) | DFB |
If only one rock and roll song echoes into tomorrow
There won't be anything to keep you from the distant morning glow.
I'm not a man. I just portrayed one for 15 years.
| Hyperactive Gundam Pilot of MM | GALE | ASVS | Cleaners | Kibologist (beable) | DFB |
If only one rock and roll song echoes into tomorrow
There won't be anything to keep you from the distant morning glow.
I'm not a man. I just portrayed one for 15 years.