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<blockquote data-quote="Naszir" data-source="post: 5285145" data-attributes="member: 55043">I don't need a ton of buy-in. I have been gaming with the same set of guys since high school (we're all 38 now.) We pretty much know what we all like and they know how I run things. Mainly I get something set out for them and give them the general idea of the campaign. (I've had only one time where one of the players really wanted to try out the world of Midnight and we all agreed to give it try.) They then give what kind of characters they are going to run. Usually they are good at giving some backstory and then I'll use the backstory to weave more threads into the campaign.I'd say early on in my DMing career I didn't do that enough. I had a plot I wanted the game to follow and I railroaded a lot of things. Personally it is just too much work to go sandbox a game and have all the intricacies that I want to put into things. Lately I have gotten better at giving choices to the players at key moments. It's a way to keep the players moving in the right story direction but allowing them to switch tracks without falling of the railroad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Naszir, post: 5285145, member: 55043"] I don't need a ton of buy-in. I have been gaming with the same set of guys since high school (we're all 38 now.) We pretty much know what we all like and they know how I run things. Mainly I get something set out for them and give them the general idea of the campaign. (I've had only one time where one of the players really wanted to try out the world of Midnight and we all agreed to give it try.) They then give what kind of characters they are going to run. Usually they are good at giving some backstory and then I'll use the backstory to weave more threads into the campaign. I'd say early on in my DMing career I didn't do that enough. I had a plot I wanted the game to follow and I railroaded a lot of things. Personally it is just too much work to go sandbox a game and have all the intricacies that I want to put into things. Lately I have gotten better at giving choices to the players at key moments. It's a way to keep the players moving in the right story direction but allowing them to switch tracks without falling of the railroad. [/QUOTE]

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