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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 4584647" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Well, I think when it comes to *Story*--I, as the DM, don't particularly have any *story* to tell, adhere to, or railroad the players into. The players in many ways build their own stories--from their own choices, their particular characters, their personal backgrounds. I add a diverse range of elements, events, and individuals that interact with all of those personalized details, and the *stories* spin off and develop from there, in an organic manner.Wherever the PC's go, wherever they meet new people or creatures, there are stories waiting for them. The PC's get involved in many different ways, and I key off of their individual motivations, and then develop a series of NPC's and free-floating encounter points, that gell together in whatever form that is the most fun, in as reasonable and consistent manner with the various people or creatures involved.The stories take on a natural, organic form, almost telling themselves through the PC's own choices and subsequent reactions.I can't even really conceive of how to *railroad* the players. "Railroading" would feel so artificial and...contrived to me.Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>