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[Snowycragrat]

Ok tell me if i'm, posting in the wrong section.

Right this is the problem I have and if there is any advice to remedy it.

I have planned a campaign set over 3 arcs, each with 3-5 subsections or chapters following the style from the GM screen.

My style, building up to the reveal of the main storyline, appears episodic, something which is partialy intentional (I roleplay at a club during evenings,) but is something i attempt to break up giving time for the players to do what they want in the world.

I appologise If I seem to be all over the place.
I am worried that my GMing style may be too linear.
But then again It could be that I don't have a good party.

Advice please, I may be able to clarify things from my end.

[Destroy1]

I'm not to sure of what your asking. But here i will try an answers. I have been GM for about 10 years now. I like my player to have total freedom. Ok sometime i will have to agree that it's lead to stagnation or what would gamer call lag. But mostly all my players are totally free to do what they please. Just like any real man could. Of course i suggest them things, and when i want them to go somewhere and do my quest i find a way to appeal there character or force them by obligation. What i mean by force them isn't ''you go do this quest because i want it'' it is more like, what ever the character is in front of me he is a ''human'' with feeling, sense of duty/greed/power/love/etc. Well one way or another i get to know my player and character to a point then throw them quest so that they will do it.

As i recall they were walking on the road and they see a slave girl on the road. (quest suggested in gaia) I hardly though about the quest but still when with what the book suggested as it is a event in the story line. The character with high gnosis just happen to be there the good time good moment, just like written, my players in this game are so deeply good and honorable, they just sighed when they saw the girl and followed her without question i mean, i could have made an arch deamon or something, no real question ask, just do it because there honnor was commanding it. The same group of player in a game more evil would probably either had killed the girl, or rape/sell/take over the slave bussiness /ignore/ help her if in a good mood

Finally yes i do keep a main story and chapter as you say it, but take it as it is, if you are a bit gamer, i consider my game to be very bioware like. There is the main quest, and so many side quest. How you happen to evolve in the main quest, be a badass, a good guy, take romance, be a greedy bastard or so on is only up to you, if you like side questing and killing mobs too. If you like gambling or be a merchant would also be up to them. Of course, if they take to much time to do the main quest event happens, as the world just doesn't wait for them.

[Snowycragrat]

The way I am introducing the main arc sections is that the PCs have been offered occaisional work by An agent of the Black Sun, along with another character who is important to the plot. Money is an initial motivation that i intended to use...

In the downtime I do allow freedom to my players. But one thing I have noticed Is how much each player approaches things differently. It may be obvious but this is something that I've seen more in this campaign than others.
Tis is the situation with them.
Before the Campaign started I asked each player to come up with some background for their character., of all of them the player who has created the most detailed background is enjoying the sessions the most. I also have a player 'N' who (with permission) NPCs characters when the party is short of players. I try to put limits on the powergamer in the group but keep them within reason. the third member sits back alot and is only seems to be interested in combat.

I cannot put dow everything. Is there anythig else i can do? My fear is of Party Meltdown.