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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5404229" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, in Star Trek, the best way to solve any problem with the Enterprise is to reverse the linearity.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I'm curious about some thing though.&nbsp; The Shaman, you talk about NPC's in your world having pre-scripted fates.&nbsp; If the PC's do not intervene, NPC X will die on a certain day in a certain way.How is that not a pre-scripted event?&nbsp; I thought that in a sandbox, nothing was pre-scripted.&nbsp; Now, since there is no way the players could possibly know that NPC X is going to die on a particular day in a particular way (unless they read your notes), does it actually matter?To put it another way, what makes it better that NPC X will die on such and such a day in such and such a way, predetermined before play even begins, vs a DM who decides that NPC X will die in such and such a way in order to serve a particular theme or plot development in his game?Since the event is entirely pre-scripted, and, since the PC's have no way of knowing that he's going to blow his own brains out on such and such a day, they have no way of actually preventing this, how is this not a railroad?&nbsp; It's an event which may affect them (if they have ties in some way to this NPC - if they don't then who cares if he lives or dies anyway) that they have zero control over not no ability to affect.In what way is this not a railroad?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5404229, member: 22779"] But, in Star Trek, the best way to solve any problem with the Enterprise is to reverse the linearity. :p I'm curious about some thing though. The Shaman, you talk about NPC's in your world having pre-scripted fates. If the PC's do not intervene, NPC X will die on a certain day in a certain way. How is that not a pre-scripted event? I thought that in a sandbox, nothing was pre-scripted. Now, since there is no way the players could possibly know that NPC X is going to die on a particular day in a particular way (unless they read your notes), does it actually matter? To put it another way, what makes it better that NPC X will die on such and such a day in such and such a way, predetermined before play even begins, vs a DM who decides that NPC X will die in such and such a way in order to serve a particular theme or plot development in his game? Since the event is entirely pre-scripted, and, since the PC's have no way of knowing that he's going to blow his own brains out on such and such a day, they have no way of actually preventing this, how is this not a railroad? It's an event which may affect them (if they have ties in some way to this NPC - if they don't then who cares if he lives or dies anyway) that they have zero control over not no ability to affect. In what way is this not a railroad? [/QUOTE]

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