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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8285545" data-attributes="member: 7025508">They will always do that to certain degree, either consciously or subconsciously. Unless they're actively and intentionally trying to create bad story. But that would be directing the story too.The intent was to scare the kobold. Kobold is scared. Yes, it could scram or it could not. Neither option is 'neutral.'You're doing that too, you just prefer a differnt outcome! The only difference is that I'm honest about what I'm doing.Nothing is changed, it is logical outcome of the player's actions. Sure, it is one among many possibilities, but that's always the case.Yes, because the GM affecting the story is not railroading. GM's job is to affect the story, if they were not, we could replace them with a stack of spreadsheets.Right. So you cannot be 100% neutral. That's what I am saying. You will always be curating the story, at least a little bit. And that's not a bad thing, that's the GM's job!</blockquote>