>>96888901
Players don't know what they want. My players said they wanted a sandbox, so I gave them one. A map with 1 major city, a few villages, a few of the big named people in the area they might want to cozy up to or supplant, and a few notorious locations (that's where the dragon lives, that's the abandoned fort overrun by undead, that's the necromancer's tower, that's the goblinlands, etc).
They complained there was no direction and didn't know where to go or what to do.