On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 06:35:26PM -0500, Richard Aiken wrote:
> It would be a challenge to keep this background and plot structure
> intact without either making the players feel like they were either
> being railroaded or that most of them were playing back-up band to
> the lead character.

More generally, this applies to adapting most stories to roleplaying
games.  RPG plots need to be balanced enough that the players don't
get bored or feel useless for any significant number of sessions,
which is a constraint not faced in general fiction writing.  Another
difference is that GMs have to live with the events as they happen in
play.

There are plenty of other differences too, so that good stories seldom
make good adventures, at least without a great deal of modification.
Likewise the stories arising from good gaming sessions are frequently
not at all interesting to anyone who didn't play in them.

- Tim