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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5398778" data-attributes="member: 8835">I would hope, that the DM, rather than scripting a story, has enough story elements to get the players interested and that the story is the outcome of their activity.Thus, I don't want to play through the DM's re-enactment of Dragonlance.Nor do I want to go from one random meangingless encounter to the next.A good GM should be able to turn those seemingly random encounters and surprising character decisions INTO a dramatic story that clearly supports the character choices, rather than is at risk of being at odds with them.Basically, make what I do awesome.Now I supposed players owe DMs some seriousness in their actions, as befits the setting and theme.  Thus if the party says "we're heroic heroes, and we do heroic stuff" then the dork who thinks he can pickpocket the king is running counter to that.Sure, they might have a good time rescuing the rogue, but that one player may have just cratered the campaign.I'm all for players having freedom, but juist because you can technically try to do stupid things, doesn't mean it makes for quality gaming.  I guess I got that out of my system when I started gaming.</blockquote>