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I completely agree. I would probably count a lack of that freedom more as something related to railroading.

I think that in @Celebrim 's example there's an inherent acceptance that "the premise of the game means that we need to accept bounties...

Not exactly what you’re describing, but my best campaign ever was essentially a sandbox. But I didn’t design it from the ground up. It...

IMO. One cannot have player agency at all without the possibility of a choice now to restrict choices in a later moment. If it’s...

How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox is the best resource I've seen for designing sandboxes of any flavour. Rob really knows his stuff...

In a few months I'll be running a Delta Green campaign, and in this campaign the player characters will be marked by a cosmic entity...

My sense of railroading is based less on agency and more on the use of GM force. I think that linear adventure design is fine and I'm...

It means that applying techniques like small world, obdurium walls, false choices, or Schrodinger's maps can be justified if the GM is...

I've always found it weird that people who enjoyed aspects of AD&D/3E D&D but didn't enjoy 4e D&D regard themselves as having been...

My personal preferences shape at least some of what I post (see, eg, references to Burning Wheel and Prince Valiant). But I try to do...

I'm probably being too broad there, let me dial that rhetoric back a little. Obviously we all have preferences and those will inevitably...

Keep in mind that we're talking about your goofy hot take on 4E here. If someone agrees that 4E was slanted and exclusionary on purpose...

Because you are only interested in what you think, and that's not interesting or informative. Step outside of that narrow little place...

The only person here who's concerned with personal preferences is you.

I think my approach - especially for party play like 4e D&D - is heavily influenced by Claremont X-Men.