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I don't think having a general premise for a campaign makes it linear. Words mean things. Linear implies that the events follow one...

So basically the setup and methodology of play don't matter because all games end up delivering a linear sequence of events? Well...

One compromise option where you can have humanocentrism without human ascendancy is that the humanocentrism is merely local; the...

What makes them linear?

But if the path can branch in such a significant way via a player choice, then it is not linear!

It definitely is not. As a GM I often just present situations. I do not at this point know how they will be solved or whether they will...

Yeah, that's just bonkers. Of course any adventure will have taken only one path once it is completed! I mean it is not by...

I am not sure it is as plain as you seem to think. So is the argument that railroading takes force to block outcomes? And that framing...

Are they though? :unsure:

Nothing better than important lore information being missing from the books but available through a designer interview.

Excellent point!

Whilst I would not put it quite so starkly, you're definitely onto something here. I think the "story" that the latter approach produces...

Sure you can. You just need to layout the different kind of gaming scenarios first, and worry about what kind of labels to assign them...

No. Because if the GM frames events in such way, that there is always only the one sensible thing to do, it is still a railroad, just...

Fair to whom and how? Is it fair for GM to block action declarations that do not fit to the story they want to tell? Is it fair for the...