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It is very easy to fix. Just delete rapiers.

I don't think sandbox needs to be static. Interesting events can still happen, and it is perfectly fine for the GM just to decide that some of them happen when the PCs are around. Like would the sort of situation like I described, a wild monster breaking loose from animal handler in a city just...

But is this realistic? Is there interesting adventure worthy stuff all around all the time in the real world? I don't think so. Lives of PCs in D&D are far more filled with adventure than any person's in the real world. And similarly if all these interesting events happened at equal frequency to...

It is not about any particular story or about forcing outcomes, it is about making the stuff around the PCs more full of potential for interesting than is strictly speaking realistically plausible. I don't know about you, but I want interesting stuff to happen in my games most of the time, and...

I have hard time believing that a game where everything is prepped or even randomised will be functional. Like a lot of things can be, but I can't imagine that everything could, nor I think it is practical. Like do you have a random chart for "interesting thing that could happen when people go...

Like others have said, pure quantum ogre and similar situations are not really railroading in any meaningful sense. Players never made an informed decision in the first place, just a blind choice, so no agency was overridden. Now if the whole world works like this, and there is no information to...

To be fair, this might tell more about the quality of construction rather than the power of the weapon. This was an American house, right? I've seen people punch holes into walls of those with bare hands.

Did they? Because I think including one was a mistake. It allows dex to completely supplant strength for many builds, without any significant drawbacks. It also bugs me a lot that fighting with two rapiers is an optimal build, as that just seems silly.

Well, a lot of the superhero genre overall certainly feels that way. 🤷

No, sorry, this is just nonsense. The players have no information of the dragon attack, thus they cannot make choices for preparing to it, and the GM would ask "Will you do anything before the nightfall?" just the same if there was not a dragon attack. The players have opportunity to state...

Well, apparently unless you just sit silently eight hours at the table whilst the characters sleep that is railroading!

But would they have known that if it was fully played either? Players basically never have full knowledge, as their characters do not either. They are not losing agency. You asked them if there is something they want to do, and they used their agency to say "no." Now if your point is that...

I don't think I am, at least by how I understand railroading, and I think definition of railroading which includes any and all time skips must be sufficiently broad to be practically useless. Outside LARPs, no RPG runs in real time. Similarly like the GM cannot describe every physical detail...

I don't think so.

If the information does not always correspond, then it sometimes leads to metagaming. Simple as that. You internalise the persona of the character, then you do not really need to think of it. It is like method acting. Also just basic roleplaying. No, probably not in those exact words, but...

It is exceedingly unlikely that it always corresponds with plausible characters that are actually roleplayed as people living in the setting as distinct entities from the players. Then why were you so upset when I implied your method leads to it? Seems that you care. Besides, that was not the...

Is it also due racism that bluejays and robins are of different colours? Though if you merely mean colour-coded morality, then I definitely agree with you. But not about colour-coded capabilities.

Yours may have, mine will always remain dog people! Dragonborn are like that already, (which I'm not necessarily a fan of) but if one wants, I see no reason one could not do the same with kobolds. Now another question is why it is like that, and indeed why it is like this for dragonborn...

No, characters certainly can have knowledge of dragons and all sort of other things. We even have various knowledge skills in the game to roughly measure the amount of knowledge they have. It is just that this that this knowledge does not necessarily correspond with the knowledge the player has...

Certainly. But @Hriston said that remembering monster characteristic is a player skill, meaning that memorising them and then using that knowledge to their advantage is intended part of the play. I have no issue with troll vulnerabilities and dragon breath/colour associations etc just being...