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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1968775" data-attributes="member: 2673">Nope, my players do this too.  I've solved it by not expecting anything.  I simply set up a situation and see how they handle it.  Here's a recent example from my All Flesh Must Be Eaten game.Zombies have taken over the world, and the PCs are among the remnants of the US military.  Their base has been out of contact with the command structure, and the local commander seems to be setting himself up a private empire.  There are three different bands of troops - gung-ho types loyal to the commander, some conspirators that are convinced the local commander has betrayed the President and his forces, and the deserters, who think there's no sense in staying here and ending up zombie chow.I prepared for the three most obvious courses of action - joining with the commander as loyal soldiers, joining with the co-conspirators to find teh truth, or deserting to the wilderness.  Of course they did none of the above.  They escaped to a nearby university, where there was likely to still be an active internet node and communicated with command.  The local commander was indeed part of a coup that was vying for control of the remaining military.  Learning this they returned, managed to get both the deserters and conspirators behind them, and had a brief, mostly bloodless coup where one of the PCs relieved the commander of his duties and took up position as commander.Now I just need to have zombies eat all his soldiers...</blockquote>

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