Thread:JeielYozama/@comment-28144855-20190428220007/@comment-27950421-20190601183236

Okay Aro, I see you're having some problems with the RPs that you're running, so I'm going to give you some advice. Take it or leave it, it's on you, but if you decide to get angry and ignore it instead of objectively understanding what I'm saying, this going to happen in the vast majority of RPs that run.

What I've seen you do in all of the RPs that I've seen you run, it's called railroading. It's a pretty common mistake for unskilled GMs. It pretty much leaves the players in this position, and guess how much fun that is.

The first thing you need to understand is this. RPing is not the same as writing a story. You do not own the story, plot, chain of events, what have you. It's not yours, you do not decide everything that happens. It belong to everyone who is participating in the RP.

The GM is not there to write the story, they are there to build the world and events around the player characters and the players are there to play the role of those characters. It is through the interaction between the world, PCs, GM, and players, that the story is created.

If a player cannot do anything outside of what you planned for them to do without "ruining the story" then you have failed from the start and you should be writing a fanfic, not trying to make it an RP.

To sum things up, you make your RPs so strict and brittle that you effectively make it where the player has no role in this at all (not the Reptile King, but me, Walter, the guy sitting on his phone writing this).