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Okay, we're getting lost in the weeds here. Whatever system you do use, does it have rules? I assume it isn't FKR so it has rules...

So you're describing one process here - obviously it's not the only one that a GM might use, when having to apply the rule call for a...

On this we disagree, I think, at least to this extent: making the game world respond realistically to player choice can be railroading...

The point--going back to the original use of the analogy--was that someone else had asserted that the rules are "just one element" of...

Perhaps. But the more pre-prepped things are, the further away from sandbox it is, and the closer to railroad it is. Pre-prepping is not...

I am not sure what it means either, being perfectly honest. That sounds to me like cognitive dissonance.

Critical, yes. But secondary to an engine. I explicitly said that in what you quoted (though I admit I have been editing the post to add...

And yet if something goes wrong with any individual safety feature, I'm sure you would not immediately stop using the car just because...

No. You have made the first point too strident. If it is essential to play, then yes, I think it should have rules. The rules for the...

The one and only function the X-card serves is to give an official signal, from one of the participants, that a particular topic or...

The only way it could affect a sandbox is if it is being abused. I'm not interested in talking about a mechanic being openly abused in...

Conversely, very specifically because people have asserted it on this very forum, I'm intensely aware of the "invisible railroad". Which...

Again, you just pulled a single sentence out of a three or four paragraph post in order to what? Since I have now repeatedly...

You did not use those words. You have--now repeatedly--argued that that standard has nothing in common, at all, with what people mean...

So? Like seriously, so what? You are conflating rules with any possible restrictions whatsoever, which is both counterproductive and...