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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joe123" data-source="post: 1362562" data-attributes="member: 10325">Buttercup said:New players can desire direction in following a path. It is the DM’s job, in turn, to explain that they have and should exercise choice. This is mainly what separates D&D from a computer game, which in its entirety cannot provide the breadth of options D&D can. If you permit even beginning players to cling to a DM’s narrow, linear and restrictive offering of choices at the beginning of the adventure, you foster a bad habit within the player. This always short-changes them out the fun all players enjoy in having and making decisions about what to do, on their own. The DMG (page 99), is very clear about this – about the capacity for the player to have choices to make, essentially necessary for a good game. Regarding this fallacious statement:… I will let dreaded_beast make his mind up about whether my advice is constructive. I believe it is.</blockquote>