Franz Feedback. Stop with those cliffhangers, dude! It's done! It's over! RELAX!

One thing I noticed is that Franz has a bad habit of using the cliffhanger story beat far too often.

What I mean by this, if I'm trying to tame a horse, he will suddenly spawn a stablemaster to introduce more tension. If I was asked to sort out an argument at the docks, a second argument will start happening at the docks. If I've just met a woman in an alley who I saved from bandits, there'll be a second round of bandits further down the alley. He just doesn’t seem to know when to stop.

The way storytelling works is -->

Hook --> Development --> Cliffhanger --> Resolution.

Or:

Hook --> Cliffhanger --> Development --> Cliffhanger --> Resolution.

Currently, Franz is doing this: Hook --> Cliffhanger --> Cliffhanger --> Cliffhanger.

For people who need their experience hand-held, this style of DM'ing is likely fine. But for experienced players who have no trouble coming up with plot-beats of their own, this does get a little irritating. I have to tell Franz every 5-6 posts to retcon something he did because of bad pacing. I'll say to my group of bandits, ''we're going to case this house,'' and when I get to the house guards spawn before I've even had time to begin developing the narrative. He just doesn't seem to know when to stop.

The problem with this is, when you retcon one of his posts, he acts kind of ‘‘fucky’’ for a while and the details of your adventure get lost. It’s always a last resort.

If it's possible for us to get a ''Storytelling'' mode that isn't exactly like ''Adventure'' mode where Franz attempts to add more lore/development to the quests he's offering before creating a combat situation (the combat situation is, in this context, the cliffhanger of the story). That would be brilliant. And likewise, if it's possible to tweak him somewhat so he doesn't try introducing quests within quests (which I think is the main problem with his narration, honestly), that would be fantastic.

Sincerely,

Fox_.