I've watched mods dangle plot fodder in front of players like a parent desperately trying to get a child to eat their mashed potatos and in all but a few cases, the players just shuffled their feet and whined about how haaaaaard and cooooooomplicated the plot was.
It doesn't matter how many "results" the mods give if the players literally won't do anything to GET those results. Clues, monsters, it all adds up to zilch if the players won't pursue any of the options they've been given.
I even saw an event where the mods took time to tailor personal options for each character involved in the plot in question and it was met with a good 30% of those players either dropping off the face of the earth or whining about not having anything to do (despite having personalized choices laid out in front of them). The people who actually participated and played off of the clues they'd been given all seemed to have a pretty good time.
Yeah, there's shitty mods out there who can't run plots to save their lives, but it takes two to tango. Even the best-planned plot can fall through horrendously if the players don't hold up their end.
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It doesn't matter how many "results" the mods give if the players literally won't do anything to GET those results. Clues, monsters, it all adds up to zilch if the players won't pursue any of the options they've been given.
I even saw an event where the mods took time to tailor personal options for each character involved in the plot in question and it was met with a good 30% of those players either dropping off the face of the earth or whining about not having anything to do (despite having personalized choices laid out in front of them). The people who actually participated and played off of the clues they'd been given all seemed to have a pretty good time.
Yeah, there's shitty mods out there who can't run plots to save their lives, but it takes two to tango. Even the best-planned plot can fall through horrendously if the players don't hold up their end.