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While I don't wholeheartedly disagree, I think this sort of appeals to the authority of the books and/or rules in a way that is...

I think there's nots of room beyond strictly 'rules as physics'. Lots of games, using all kinds of rules systems, have internal logic...

Yup, I think that gates established pre-play and justified by the internal logic of the setting generally escape the gravity of...

Yes, but perhaps potentially very minor. A lot of railroading for me depends on the why of what you are doing. To me the real issue...

The is interesting, I have GM fiat right at the heart of my definition. Deployed in particular/bad ways mind, not generally.

Trying to do something different and interesting isn't the same as exclusionary. The fact that people felt that way is something else...

Well that's a pretty specific example, isn't it? Lots of games have a plane shift spell, but the differences in wording and possible...

By moi? Surely not...

We might even call that a monorail.

I mean, if you as a GM frame a situation such that there is exactly one solution, you kinda laid down the tracks already, right?

Yes, but not just those.. I'm talking about the extent to which I have to shift my attention from the situation at hand to consulting a...

I don't think that's what he's saying at all. The whole point of light RPGs, or at least a part fo the point, is for the rules to fade...

Lots of OSR games specifically have spells that allow creative problem solving, and as such some don't have an 'intended' purpose. Even...

This last page or two is why I dislike the use of railroad to describe a linear adventure. It's very easy to confuse with railroading...

For me, railroading is not when there is a specific path for the story to go in but rather when only a single solution to a given...