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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9510805" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Thanks for answering. You had said earlier that a player doing this could "interfere" with something. What did you have in mind? Sure, I'm just trying to find out what would be problematic for you about the kind of stuff we're talking about.That's cool. As always, as long as everyone at the actual table is happy, then everything is all good. I'm trying to focus less on what constitutes a preference, and get to the reasons for the preferences. Like, I can elaborate on why I like to give players more leeway with this stuff. I can also explain why I used to have a more traditional mindset... but I don't want to assume anyone shares those reasons... they may be very different than mine. Why? I am genuinely asking. I'm curious why you prefer it that way beyond "because that's my preference" or "that's the default process per the book". We're talking about different ways to play the game. So let's talk about them instead of just perceiving questions as attacks. Okay... now this is like a tangible thing we can discuss. This seems to be a reason for your preference, which is what I'm interested in discussing. How would you expect players to abuse it? What are you concerned about? This seems like a reasonable response and not an agenda-driven one at all![USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] clearly knows more about Torchbearer than the guy who's written a 14-page actual play summary! Good call!I personally love it when players give me gifts like this. To me, this is very much an opportunity. An entire session (at least) could be based on this. I don't know if railroading requires intentionality. I would describe my earliest DMing as railroading for sure... but that's because I didn't really know there was any other way. I wasn't intending to limit anyone or to shut down player contribution... I just thought that's how the game had to work.This is also why... when I see people say things like "this is how the game has to work" it resonates with me.</blockquote>

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