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Also, Bruce Herald, added a ton to the above in a couple of post spread across a couple Dragon magazines. He takes a much deeper dive...

3. Raga is incensed by the king and announces his desire to initiate combat. The player rolls his dice accordingly. The GM observes the...

The thing about Space Navies, or even just space warfare, is it does depend on when. We can really only talk about 21 st century...

Not to many players. If they don't like something, they cry Railroad! Well, really humans are simple creatures to figure out, RPG...

Yes, I'm interested as well... Yes. On the more personal micro individual level. If you are hungry = eat some food. If you need...

It is all about Feelings. The Linear Game is nearly all RPGs as it has to be....you have to have a Start-->Middle--->End. That is how...

And you have never met any bad ones? It is really the combination that does it. I find that mostly jerks ask questions. It is amazing...

And all examples of metagaming as the player is a jerk in real life and is forcing that upon the game. Right, not railroading. What I...

A Casual DM is not inexperienced or a new DM. They are a DM that does not care: at best they think of the RPG as "just so silly game to...

Well, take the example: Four players are playing the game in character and go to meet the king to find out about a problem in the...

Great! I've never heard this one. It is what I often see in a Sandbox game. Odd, most people I know seem to think the Sandbox game is...

I'm in the other camp, of course. I would just add to this Metagaming , as I think it's important that a player should not be able to...

This does not feel like Railroading. Just about all published adventure modules have a couple different settings, like a swamp or a...

Though the same problem existed 50 years ago that exists today: most players don't want to co-create. Most players want to do nothing...

A big thread for everything Railroading. So far there is no single true definition of “Railroading” out there, which is probably the...