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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raiztt" data-source="post: 9081435" data-attributes="member: 7040616">To better answer your question, I'll give an abstract example.Suppose the PCs need to do something or achieve a certain goal. If there is only one way, one method, one 'solution', then the players don't have agency in any meaningful sense. Here's a specific example from a game that I ran:The PCs were attempting to rescue a merfolk princess who had been captured by pirates. The pirates have a small stronghold on a very small island. Now - me as the DM - I do not know or care how the PCs accomplish this goal. What they ended up doing was infiltrating the stronghold at night, had the merfolk princess drink a shrinking potion, and literally yeeted her back into the ocean. While I had imagined several different ways they could have gone about rescuing the princess, this was not one that I had imagined - but it was a really good/clever/interesting idea.If on the other hand there was only and exactly one way to rescue the princess, then the players wouldn't have had any agency in any meaningful sense. IMO D&D is not the PCs playing out your script/novel, it's a DM creating situations and letting the PCs tackle those situations however they like and the DM adapting accordingly.</blockquote>