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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 5283398" data-attributes="member: 114">I like to present not so much a railroad as an interchange. There are several trains leaving the station, and the PCs can choose which train or trains they want to catch. All the trains are going to reach some destination or another at some point in the future, and are likely to have consequences which set off other future trains.In other words, in a campaign I don't present players with THE adventure, as much as laying the seeds of a number of adventures. Actually, that isn't entirely true. I normally give the illusion of a sandbox but when the rumours are all about goblin attacks in the village to the north, it is pretty obvious what the neophyte adventurers can go and do!I've know one DM who pretty much always ran pure sandbox games, and I found them incredibly boring - because he didn't put much thought into anything up front, we would come up with an idea, go somewhere, have some on the fly combats without any real impact, and move on. Even at high levels, it was just a case of wandering around and beating people up. Hugely unsatisfying. So as a player - give me a railroad every day - especially if it is a railroad to awesometown (to paraphrase Morrus's sig)Cheers</blockquote>