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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8697784" data-attributes="member: 23751">I run about 75% of the time.&nbsp; It used to be 100% and then a few years before the pandemic hit I started to burn out a bit, so my game started to suffer. A few of my other players started stepping in once in a while to DM short 3-6 month campaigns to give me breaks.One of them had never DM'd before and for his first time he picked an adventure path for 3.5(since that's what we played at the time) and then approached and said, &quot;Hey guys, this is my first time and while X(me) is really good at rolling with things when we decide to just pick up and go to go somewhere way outside of where we are at to do things, I don't think I can handle those sorts of things well yet, so I'd like it if you guys would stay inside what the adventure provides.&quot;&nbsp; We of course immediately understood what he was going through and didn't want to make things tougher on him than it needed to be for a first time and agreed to go through things that path in a linear fashion.&nbsp; It wasn't a railroad because he came to us before hand and got our buy-in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8697784, member: 23751"] I run about 75% of the time. It used to be 100% and then a few years before the pandemic hit I started to burn out a bit, so my game started to suffer. A few of my other players started stepping in once in a while to DM short 3-6 month campaigns to give me breaks. One of them had never DM'd before and for his first time he picked an adventure path for 3.5(since that's what we played at the time) and then approached and said, "Hey guys, this is my first time and while X(me) is really good at rolling with things when we decide to just pick up and go to go somewhere way outside of where we are at to do things, I don't think I can handle those sorts of things well yet, so I'd like it if you guys would stay inside what the adventure provides." We of course immediately understood what he was going through and didn't want to make things tougher on him than it needed to be for a first time and agreed to go through things that path in a linear fashion. It wasn't a railroad because he came to us before hand and got our buy-in. [/QUOTE]

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