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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silly" data-source="post: 1074294" data-attributes="member: 13770">Hi - I've been lurking here awhile, and been having a lot of fun with this cool forum. I'd like some advice from other DMs out there. Any tips you can give me would be much appreciated.I've just started running a game (with new players) for the first time in 3 years. I'm an experienced DM but my players in the past have, in general, acted as a cohesive party.From the first - brief - session, it seems as if one player is likely to keep going off on her own - making lots of independent actions without consulting the rest of the party.Having been a player in a game that was ruined by one player doing this excessively - the other three players didn't get a look in - I'm very reluctant to let the player run around on her own too much. On the other hand, I don't want to railroad the player either.So I've got to do something, but what? Deus ex machina in the game (interventions of NPCs and the like to keep her on track)? Having a word with the player and asking her to moderate her character's behaviour? Or should I let her have total freedom of action?I'd welcome suggestions from anyone who has dealt with this issue.How much is too much railroading? Is there such a thing as too much freedom?If you've had a problem with an over-independent player, what was your solution?</blockquote>