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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8532814" data-attributes="member: 29398">That's kinda sad to hear.When players just hand you story material on a silver platter like this, why on earth would you turn it down?!  Were it me I'd find some way to make use of this - maybe they find out at some point that the mentor who sends them on their adventures is on the Baron's staff...or is plotting his overthrow...or maybe both.But I wouldn't let it go to waste!If 2 players come up with story ideas and the other 3 don't then why not run with what the 2 have going?  The DM doesn't really figure in here; she just runs with what the players give her to work with and, ideally, puts her own story ideas to the side if-when player-driven story can take over.  And it's not like the other 3 players, via their characters, can't get involved; even if it's just to laugh at these two fighting over a silly little local Baron when there's an evil King needs dealing with in the big city out west. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If I'm the DM and I've made a world with - among other things - a town and a Baron who rules that town, how can I possibly complain if two players produce characters who come with built-in means of and reasons for interacting with one of those elements, and with each other?  I build the setting, but I don't dictate how the players, via their characters, interact with it.  Further, I-as-DM have no place dictating how PCs interact with each other.</blockquote>

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