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That might be what you think, and for what it's worth I agree with you, but that doesn't change anything about how 'people' react to...

I mean, in D&D, the tuning forks are literally the way that magic works across all planes. Why is this "weirdly specific and contrived"?

Let us turn this around: What uses of GM force AREN'T railroading?

One act literally cannot be railroading. It takes more than a single railroad tie(event) to build a railroad(series of forced events)...

You're conflating getting to the need to come up with a solution, with solutions. I said not having a set solution is not force. Not...

That's really about the limit of when you can make play be character driven rather than party driven. I fully agree with one player and...

This last page or two is why I dislike the use of railroad to describe a linear adventure. It's very easy to confuse with railroading...

I find that people have a railroad scale of 1-10 in their mind that is not the same for everyone. The OP of having the group portal...

I don't think "a situation" can be "a railroad" since the latter requires some sort of movement on the rails. I don't think "You are...

For me it's pretty simple. If there are predetermined scenes, plotlines, story beats, encounters, or solutions to problems, that the PCs...

Me: "I want to go over there." GM: (either explicitly or implicitly) "You can't." And a general awareness that every path leads...

The problem is that it's quite possible to use a term without having any idea what you mean by the term much less having a conscious...

I think those that conflate linear and railroad aren’t typically consistent with their meaning.

There might be nuance (there's always nuance). But this isn't that nuance. Look, this is probably a silly thing for us to argue about...

A few people in a thread on teh interwebs isn't meeting that definition of language change. Railroading has a long history of use in...