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If you can find it, the Gygax 75 "challenge" was a great method to creating a fantasy sandbox setting. Combined with Hexcrawl Toolbox...

I think those that conflate linear and railroad aren’t typically consistent with their meaning.

Why do people who want to stick with the old edition need to buy the new edition? What's the point of a new edition other than to do new...

Generally, sure, charitable readings are always best. Useful definitions are also good. Somewhere in there is a balance.

“It’s only a railroad if you can see the rails, otherwise it’s a sparkling linear adventure.”

There might be nuance (there's always nuance). But this isn't that nuance. Look, this is probably a silly thing for us to argue about...

A few people in a thread on teh interwebs isn't meeting that definition of language change. Railroading has a long history of use in...

I only like chocolate ice cream, every meal I eat is chocolate ice cream, anyone that ever eats any other kind of food is morally...

The problem here is that assumes that playstyle preferences are some immutable thing that can't change over time.

I think that's a mistake. We have a great word for linear designs - linear. Railroading is something else, even just by the definition...

Which I do. In fact ive never heard anyone use railroad in any other way but pejoratively. You cant say its a simple playstye when...

I don't think it is, no. Not by definition anyway.

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...