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I'm not changing my claim at all. I'm trying to get to my end destination in a series of steps where I think the final destination is...

Holy crap! Did I just read a lengthy reply to something I posted on enworld that included an affirmative declaration of mine and come...

So my argument depends on the idea that even the most conscientious GM isn't going to be always alert to their bias or alert to their...

Well, not entirely. I am personally not a fan of illusionism, because it's fragile. If the way you tell an RPG narrative depends on...

Can I reframe this as...bad railroading is saying "No!" to your players and ticking them off, and good railroading is when they have no...

I don't think you do. I think you react to it on an emotional level differently than some here. You aren't feeling insulted or feeling...

I don't think all railroading is bad, and subtle railroading might even be beneficial. It really is a matter of taste. If the players...

Quite often as a GM "the plot" as it were depends on the players getting to certain destinations. It's very much in the interest of...

Ok, I see what's going on here. I kept getting confused as to why you'd repeatedly contridict yourself in the space of two or three...

No, not necessarily. But if the adventure revolves around the party's exploration of the catacombs and you guide the party to hurry up...

How does that follow? Do you still end up going to Monomonomp? You seem to have narrowly defined railroading to explicitly and openly...

If you want to be hard and fast about that claim, that is, it's not a railroad if the players consent to ride the rails, then we are at...

I don't claim that in the general case the players choosing something is a loss of agency. I do claim that time skips (or hand waves...

Your argument seems to be that because something is necessary or even desirable it can't possibly simultaneously result in a loss of...

Yes, I would argue that we aren't even yet to what I would consider the magazine's Golden Age.