Does anyone else feel that their players kinda fetishize Royalty?

[Satinavian]

Putting aside the fact that I loathe the idea of the “good king” archetype as a symbol of legitimate authority. There are two reasons why I won’t go this route.

So instead of the trite archetype of the legitimate virtuous and competent king you give them the equally trite archetype of the incompetent decadent escessive tyrant.

How about some average ruler as should be pretty much the norm ?

The main gripe I have is that they aren’t actually developing their characters or even coming up with their own character goals… but rather expecting someone with authority (who is controlled by me) to give them a quest to do…

It kinda defeats the purpose of giving them the freedom to explore and impact the world when all they are going to do is willingly get railroaded by their DM.

That is a completely different problem and actually pretty common.

This can only be solved by lengthy OOC discussions.