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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 6722032" data-attributes="member: 6801286">I hate railroading. My personal philosophy is: The story goes, where the players go.What this means, is that my story is not dependent on the players going to a specific location. The players are free to go where they like, and I write the story around that. I already know where I roughly want the story to go, and the story proceeds regardless of where the players are in the world.I also write location based stories, or side quests, if that's how you want to call them. But I refrain from having an obvious billboard at an inn with quests waiting to be completed. Instead, I present my players with situations, and propositions from characters, and its up to them if they want to get involved. Not getting involved, also has consequences. But I never force them to do a quest. This means that I sometimes prepare things, that end up not being used. The players even skipped an entire dungeon once, because they chose not to go into the catacombs (they didn't trust the motives of the npc, and rightly so).Because my story does not rely on the players too much, it is easier to append the actions of the players to the story, and make them a whole. Its surprising how this loose way of storytelling, ends up feeling a lot more like a cohesive story than a railroaded adventure would.</blockquote>