>>95971526
I don't know, I don't get it. There's a guy in our group who used to GM once in a while. His life is in a weird place so he's pretty on and off with us, last time he GMed for us was in 2022.

Like Me, he prefers to run open-world style sandbox games, but as a player in that type of game I know I have to tell him what I want to do with My character long-term and short term so he knows what to prepare for the next session. Some credit where it's due, the guy usually made like a page worth of prepared notes and improvised the entire rest of the thing, and he was very good at it. But still, nothing My character wanted to do could be done if I didn't give him notice.

I think there's also an unspoken agreement that in such a game, the GM is going to give you certain things to bite at and things to do relating to your character and their goals - the responsibility is on you as a player to seize those opportunities. There's only so much pushing and coercing GM can do while you're blatantly ignoring what's right in front of you.

But with all that said, I can push and coerce just a bit harder and see where that lands Me, so that's what I'm gonna try.

>Tldr.
Haha thank you. Some of this advice has been very useful, I will say.