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No one is actually establishing a taxonomy, because everyone refuses to change their own definitions to follow a single one. ;)

I didn't say 'railroad', I said 'linear adventure'. They are two different things.

A published linear adventure is merely a sandbox campaign where the author has correctly predicted the choices the players were going to...

You are always allowed to portray monsters however you see fit in your own game. Perhaps the question should be “Why do some people...

It is with that attitude!

To build on this, Neverwinter will have societal prejudice against people from Luskan, regardless of species, due to the long history of...

To me this specific part of your very good post isn't even that big a deal, because those 'tags' aren't even used "in-world"... they are...

So this is D&D's take on it in 2024, using the Realms as the example. Humanoid's have no defined alignment tendencies. They can be as...

For my money, all of this comes down to a simple change in philosophy... Be pissed at what a person does, not at who they are. There's...

Ahh.. Ok. Sorry, the way I read it, especially with your 50/50 example, seemed to indicate everyone had to be on the same page from the...

I only was suggesting subsets of players that are 100% in either direction, not that all players were that way.

Well, my personal take is probably odd, but as far as I can tell by what is described as what actually happens at the table, is that a...

At the end of the day, whether any style works or does not work comes down to the DM and the players being on the same page and playing...

It's one part. Another is that, even when two people completely agree about what "railroading" means, one will say it is a completely...

I think a lot of arguments arise because actual play is much less binary than this definition implies. Agency can be manipulated...