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If people take away anything from these long ENWorld threads, it should be these two things. 1) TTRPG gamers have wildly disparate...

Indeed. If my players enjoyed a lot more tactical depth and drawn-out combat, which I don't really care much about, then I'm not likely...

I don't personally care how they are authored, all that matters is how the players feel about playing them. If the game/story was fun...

Other than the sample ones that I listed in the post you were responding to? I agree that this is the only useful (to me)...

Oh, well of course yeah! I'd never deny that! :D Roleplaying games are absolutely 100% meant to be a story-creation medium, not a...

Aren't you the same guy who doesn't even like the combat in BG3? :) Maybe it's just slightly possible you're overly biased towards your...

Then maybe it's just better to not use those words?

Sounds exactly like my linear adventures. 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it's true... :)

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

There are no definitions of railroading that are useful because nobody will agree on a single one. As you and I can attest. :) To put...

It's from the player's perspective, not the DMs. If they players feel they have no choices to make, then they are being railroaded. If...

From the perspective of the people within the car (and assuming they do not have outside meta knowledge of what a real African Safari is...

That's why I said 'linear adventure' and not 'railroad'. :)

Yes. As many other people have made plain. If you don't want to see (or can't see) a difference... that's fine. But other people do.