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<blockquote data-quote="Gnimish88" data-source="post: 1665632" data-attributes="member: 15041">Speaking as a player...Frankly, I feel that the open-ended, completely character driven story method of play that has become popular lately(?) is highly over-rated. I much prefer a good story with the understanding that, to a point, you need to follow the GM's lead over spending half the session arguing over what the party should do next and whether or not a given character would go follow this or that course. Granted, I am a tactical player who enjoys overcoming challenges over roleplaying out every little bit of my character's personality. I have seen many cases where people roleplaying their characters led to deadlock and no-one having any real fun. With a nod to Quas, when this happened in his game he had a discussion about it with the group and we did a mini restart of the campaign, most people making new characters and the group continuing with a definate goal in mind and a direction to get us started.&nbsp; Hmm, kind of rambling there. I guess the point of all that would be to say it is best to talk to the players about what kind of game you want to run, explain your time constraints, and make it clear that if they choose not to follow plot hooks or make characters whose personalities would prevent them from doing so that the game will be pretty short.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnimish88, post: 1665632, member: 15041"] [b]Speaking as a player...[/b] Frankly, I feel that the open-ended, completely character driven story method of play that has become popular lately(?) is highly over-rated. I much prefer a good story with the understanding that, to a point, you need to follow the GM's lead over spending half the session arguing over what the party should do next and whether or not a given character would go follow this or that course. Granted, I am a tactical player who enjoys overcoming challenges over roleplaying out every little bit of my character's personality. I have seen many cases where people roleplaying their characters led to deadlock and no-one having any real fun. With a nod to Quas, when this happened in his game he had a discussion about it with the group and we did a mini restart of the campaign, most people making new characters and the group continuing with a definate goal in mind and a direction to get us started. Hmm, kind of rambling there. I guess the point of all that would be to say it is best to talk to the players about what kind of game you want to run, explain your time constraints, and make it clear that if they choose not to follow plot hooks or make characters whose personalities would prevent them from doing so that the game will be pretty short. [/QUOTE]

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