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I'd like to see more games where the characters are active participants in their own fates, not the buttmonkeys of the whims of the jamjar gods, vaguely alluded to be influencing reality by just being there, or openly completely irrelevant to the world. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be there by choice; it only means that once in the game, they need to be able to make actual meaningful choices that accomplish things and aren't just implementing the will of the benevolent rebel jamjar god.

I only know of one game in all of DWRP that's like this. Where are the other games not characterized by helplessness and/or ennui?

unfortunately, in most games where the characters are active participants in their own fates, about 90% of the playerbase doesn't do anything. a lot of the standard railroaded jamjar tropes gained traction because at least a game shoved through on the rails has something happen, and people are more likely to bestir themselves to engage with plot if they don't have to really put much thought or effort in.

i'd like to see more of that too. and i say that as a mod. yet every time we've offered hooks for people to start taking charge of their own fates more through various means we basically got nothing in return. i don't like railroading a game, but damnit, if that is the only way people will do anything, then so be it.

Are you sure your hooks are as obvious as you think they are? Are you offering multiple hooks or just dangling a single one and hoping people bite that particular one? Even when it comes to singular hooks, how many roads lead to it? Are you sure you haven't accidentally taught players that engaging the plot won't work by having what appear to be obvious plot hooks that are actually complete dead ends?

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