story-oriented

"A great deal of intellectual suffering has occurred due to the linked claims that role-playing either is or is not 'story-oriented,' and that one falls on one side or the other of this dichotomy. I consider this terminology and its implications to be wholly false. . . . Story-stuff and/or character stuff is so important to all these approaches that the difference in processes and point of role-playing are easy to miss, or, disastrously, easy to deny." - Ron Edwards, "GNS and Other Matters of Role-playing Theory