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I don’t think anything in my description is arbitrary any more than squares on a checkerboard after it is designed. Surely the DM plans...

At least it is the thread with the most Off Topic tangents ever. :D

I wouldn't put up with that DM for long. Did you? The rules in D&D also tells the DM "Being clear about your expectations and making...

I run a mostly sandbox game but I would still rank my games somewhere around 3-5 on my scale. Even though I always give people options...

I just want to ask: “but you have fun playing, right?” I know debating can be fun…but sometimes you come away from these discussions...

I tend to limit the term railroad to the derogatory usage, to avoid confusion. Otherwise, I just prefer the term linear. If an...

There's always going to be a spectrum from sandiest of sandboxes to the extremist of railroads, let's say a scale of 1-10. Most...

see, i wouldn't call that deceptive railroading due to being so barefaced about it, deceptive railroading IMO would more be the 'quantum...

For me, if the players are aware and choose to follow along, as they would in most published adventures - that's not railroading. The...

Sorry, but having events happen independent of characters doesn’t make something a railroad. There seems to be some major conflation...

As long as the players voluntarily stay on the tracks it’s not a railroad. The moment a dm intervenes to keep them on the tracks, that...

I don't agree that establishing the details of an imaginary world equates to railroading. To me, railroading entails something like...

So for the people that prefer the dynamics of play, the principles and expectations of D&D we're just supposed to throw it all out...

Not at all. It's nothing like combat. Nothing is undermined because it's all in the present. We determine attackers. We determine...

With computers, there's the idea of a null value for variables. A nullable integer variable may be null and have no value, or be...