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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6180285" data-attributes="member: 20323">Haha, yes it may have come up last year too since it has been on my mind. <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=":)" />I guess I see sandbox---railroad as a spectrum of extremes, and right now maybe my group is 70% railroad, 30% sandbox, and I'm wanting to shift us to more sandbox-y than railroad-y. In my view, my players show up and expect the DM to be the primary source of entertainment and generator of a main story that the players follow. I think part of it is that it's hard enough for us to schedule game time, that they don't want to "waste time" on stuff that's not driving the "main story" forward.I recently started to make use of quest cards and I will definitely keep it up, since it seems to help some with forgetting plot points. I guess I can also not hide my DM secrets as close to my chest, and come out and bluntly state choices they are facing, or make connections between two things for them when I sense they're forgetting stuff. :/ I believe in cultivating player skill and don't like depriving us the joy from the players figuring stuff on their own, so being so transparent/leading by the nose grates on me though.</blockquote>