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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 2962952" data-attributes="member: 8835">People get used and directed ALL the time in real life.  This is a common theme for bad guys using good guys, etc.  People get forced into doing stuff.  The turn-around in the story is when the victim of such gets pay it back.  Even your boss is telling you what to do.  There are REAL consequences for not doing what your boss tells you.  The same should occur in the game as well.Players who want real freedom should take care to have no bosses over them, and leave no leverage against themselves.  The result is often KoDT-style characters that end up killing every NPC they meet.The point of having a PC work for others is to generate plot ideas and situations.  If you avoid all NPC interactions and complications, and ties, the only adventures you will have will consist of killing monsters and taking their stuff.  No events external to direct PC action will ever occur, resulting in a very flat game.This is why PCs join guilds, swear fealty, worship a god, and have families.  To generate plot hooks of events happening around them.  Just like real life, you will have to journey to the land of faraway medicine (Walgreens) to get the secret herb (Tylenol) for your ailing grandma.  It's not a railroad, it's an event that caused a request for your help.  That request won't be denied(in character, for most PCs), as such it is a heavily weighted choice (weight being, you're gonna do it).</blockquote>

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