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I don't think you've taken @Crimson Longinus at their word. Notice the operative bit you left out, bolded for emphasis: "Some...

No, I want there to be complicated and nuanced situations that do not have one obvious correct solution.

Some situations are like that, but I think it is poor adventure building if every situation has one correct and obvious answer, and...

I did that with the first campaign in my homebrew setting. It was set in and around a empire that was pretty human-focused, with other...

A lot of modules, I suspect, are failed novels. The author had a specific scene in mind, with the PCs here, the villain there, this...

I can accept what you mean by imprecise words once I understand it. It is just that with such word choices it is not surprising if...

There are all kinds of things you can do to influence pacing and tension during a session without having a plot. I routinely use all of...

I literally not was sure what people meant by "linear." Now as it seems that they do not mean linear by "linear" I better understand why...

I mean that there doesn't seem to be a coherent definition of "linear adventure" that is impossible to answer. If people merely use it...

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...