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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryernad" data-source="post: 8257826" data-attributes="member: 7030586">I, like many others here have been DMing for a long time, for me its been 14 years. I have learned one major fact. The DM creates the immersive world and everything in it, a sandbox if you will. But its the players story thats being told, not the DMs. Yes the DM has a story line that he/she creates that the players have options of going down or not going down.I'll give you an example. I spent 5 months putting together this crazy in depth campaign where there was 5 waring factions that when the group started the campaign together they were in the same graduating class of their starting faction. I planned for every foreseeable outcome and where they could go with the campaign. None of which they did, they chose to break off into their own faction midst the war and proceed to fuel fire between different factions causing them to do unrepairable damages to their armies and strongholds all the while the PCs were recruiting and looting wreckage and picking off the survivers. This continued until they were the only remaining superpower of the world. At which point they started waring amongst eachother, thus continuing the cycle. Absolutely none of this could have been predicted. But all of it makes for an amazing campaign for both the DM and the PCs. The DM has a responsibility to roll with the punches and not get butt hurt when things don't go his/her way.</blockquote>