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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 18137" data-attributes="member: 300">I don't believe in railroading.&nbsp; Heaven knows that my players have taken me to parts of my campaign world I never knew existed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But as a good DM (and my players over the years have claimed that I'm such, even if to just save their own hides), I have to look at the fun factor in general.&nbsp; I want to have fun to, darn it!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> If I've created an adventure that I think the players would really enjoy and they're inches away from missing out on it, I'll fudge a bit to get them in the right direction.&nbsp; However, if they've decided to completely go another direction, I'll just save the adventure for later.If it would be fun for the charactes, after months of work, to kill the main bad guy on a lark, then I'll let it happen.&nbsp; More often than not my players would think this was a great disappointment.&nbsp; They want an epic final confrontation.&nbsp; They don't want a pushover.So it takes a careful hand to keep everything in balance.&nbsp; Often I fail, but most of the time I succeed--even if I do break the cardinal rule against fudging. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfspider, post: 18137, member: 300"] I don't believe in railroading. Heaven knows that my players have taken me to parts of my campaign world I never knew existed. ;) But as a good DM (and my players over the years have claimed that I'm such, even if to just save their own hides), I have to look at the fun factor in general. I want to have fun to, darn it! :p If I've created an adventure that I think the players would really enjoy and they're inches away from missing out on it, I'll fudge a bit to get them in the right direction. However, if they've decided to completely go another direction, I'll just save the adventure for later. If it would be fun for the charactes, after months of work, to kill the main bad guy on a lark, then I'll let it happen. More often than not my players would think this was a great disappointment. They [i]want[/i] an epic final confrontation. They [i]don't[/i] want a pushover. So it takes a careful hand to keep everything in balance. Often I fail, but most of the time I succeed--even if I do break the cardinal rule against fudging. :o [/QUOTE]

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