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I have my own system which essentially treats Domains/Factions as a Character with Attributes - Diplomacy (Cha), Military (Str), Economy...

I just don't even bother to play with people who tell me that the improv a sandbox anymore. Honestly, at this point, if someone tells...

The Dragonlance adventure path was the first time I remember this becoming a big debate, precisely because by the text the adventures...

I would join this thread .... but I know where it is going. I guess that it makes it the most aptly named thread ever!

This was fascinating because the spells I got, the vast majority of them were just very very much too high level. Like, level 3 spells...

That's true of a linear game because you can generally expect where the next session is going to be. But in a true sandbox you are...

IF I'm using a Schrodinger's Map then objectively I'm still railroading you even if you don't know it, don't catch me, and enjoyed the...

If we accept this description, then there would have been no discussion about railroads while there existed an assumed and reinforced...

Yeap, im seeing it here too. It's examples like this that lead folks to claiming any published adventure is a railroad, when its just an...

I think that is a grotesquely simplified version of not only RPG history but the dynamics of play. My reading of the very first RPG...

So, interesting experiment. I have thoughts about it but I don't want to give spoilers.

Sandboxing isn't the opposite of railroading. Sandboxing or "open world" is the opposite of a linear adventure or "adventure path"...

If sandboxing is the opposite of railroading then it should be called off-roading. (Clicks post reply and abandons thread forever)

This is clumsy implementation of the Tiny World railroading technique often by a GM who self-deludes themselves into believing that they...

I think there is a very compelling argument that a game becomes a railroad when the GMs track laying and railroading techniques are so...