[quote=Nemaisare]
This is probably a stupid question, but what is the difference between character-driven and story-driven?I mean, I assume it's the focus, but everytime I try to think further than that my mind says well, a story without characters is a setting, and a character without a story is really going nowhere. And, to me at least, most rps unless they're nation rps, would seem to be more focused on the characters the players came up with, I mean, yes, you should generally give them an end goal or at least an idea of what they're supposed to be doing, but without developing the character motivation, it just becomes railroading. Or am I looking at this wrong?
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It isn't a stupid question, especially since at what point someone marks off whether something is truly 'story driven' or truly 'character driven'. Likely roleplays will require elements of both.

However, to clarify a bit. I've been a part of roleplays in which the GM is so focused on pushing the roleplay forward with his story that even when my character disrupted it, he completely ignored the actions my character took and shouted at my in the OOC saying that I couldn't do such a thing 'for plot reasons'.