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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6703628" data-attributes="member: 177">Hold on a second.  I'm not sure that's true.  More importantly, I don't think we can say that with the information provided.The player said they wanted the characters to go North, right?  But nothing else?  I'll continue as if they said nothing else, and you may discard the rest if that's not correct...So, we have a couple ways to take our consideration from here - we could go down a rabbit hole of semantics.  Did he mean "go *exactly* due north, with no deviation whatsoever?" What do people usually mean when they say they want to go North?  We could discuss literal interpretations and liberal interpretations of "north".  And so on.  I don't think that'll be constructive, so I won't.I will instead ask, Why did he want to go North?  That'll tell us whether we are actually negating player choice.  Because the player's choice, and the player's stated action are not necessarily synonymous.For example: If he went north because he heard BigCity was to the north, and he ultimately wanted to end up there, taking him to some other ultimate destination is thwarting player choice.  The GM may perhaps be forgiven if the player didn't say that BigCity was the goal, and we can quibble over whether the GM should have sought additional information - but that's a communications issue, not a "negating player choice" issue.  If he went north in the hopes of finding otherwise unspecified action and adventure, whatever is in that direction, and the mountain is *mostly* north, and maybe a bit east, I'd have a hard time saying that the player's choice was negated.  Indeed, it looks a lot like the players choice was fulfilled!</blockquote>

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