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My game is homebrew. Rules are just a launching point for that to reduce the amount of work I have to do to something closer to managable.

One wonders how you think that's a strong argument. And for the record, I linked to my definition of a railroad. It's therefore very...

The thing about using "Tucker's Kobolds" is that you should take inspiration from Tucker but not do what he did...

I think that is a grotesquely simplified version of not only RPG history but the dynamics of play. My reading of the very first RPG...

Sandboxing isn't the opposite of railroading. Sandboxing or "open world" is the opposite of a linear adventure or "adventure path"...

This is clumsy implementation of the Tiny World railroading technique often by a GM who self-deludes themselves into believing that they...

I think there is a very compelling argument that a game becomes a railroad when the GMs track laying and railroading techniques are so...

Sure but this can verge on the GM saying, "Your character wouldn't do that." Indeed, having a game system that encourages the players...

The problem with this is that either you have to accept a dungeon map is an example of railroading, or else accept that railroading is...

This is called a "Rowboat World". You can go anywhere but you have to put in all the effort and the vast majority of what you find will...

Well, we seem to be on the same page. A good starting point for what I think is this thread...

I kind of come at the problem in the opposite direction. It's probably reasonable to assume that 75% of goblins are vicious cannibals...

So now you approve and think something different has happened? This is why it is hard to take your argument seriously, But at the very...

I'm not. There is even literary precedence. Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Barsoom series wants to have a race that is obviously evil...

Yes. In my game for example, elves are "usually" chaotic good. This doesn't mean that all elves are chaotic good only that they are by...