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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VHawkwinter" data-source="post: 9877860" data-attributes="member: 7040136">In my experience most players don't set goals and doggedly pursue them, they mostly react to what happens around them. Occasionally one is motivated and the rest go along. When I am a player I usually work with the GM during chargen to come up with my campaign-long goal, and make sure it will work, and then I pursue that. But I am, in all things, an outlier.Anyway: My general plan for player-driven adventure is to throw lots of stuff at them that's happening, while giving them limited time and ability to intervene and how, and then letting them choose /what/ they react to. Sometimes that turns into them setting and pursuing their own goals, but at the very least, they're often deciding who they cooperate with.I usually try to throw 4-6 major factions at them with conflicting goals, plus side quests, temporary alliances, or sometimes an external threat that makes them temporarily band together.But fundamentally I still operate on the assumption the players in my player-driven adventure will generally be reactive not proactive.</blockquote>