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I tend to limit the term railroad to the derogatory usage, to avoid confusion. Otherwise, I just prefer the term linear. If an...

I think deception is the most common way to ‘force’ players along, but not the only?

For me, if the players are aware and choose to follow along, as they would in most published adventures - that's not railroading. The...

Exactly, thus the principle of an independent world negating railroading.

Right, and if "the world" reacts to the players by invalidating their choice in favor of the DMs predetermined outcome, that's railroading.

Sorry, but having events happen independent of characters doesn’t make something a railroad. There seems to be some major conflation...

As long as the players voluntarily stay on the tracks it’s not a railroad. The moment a dm intervenes to keep them on the tracks, that...

He can’t do that unless the world reacts to the players choices to always reinforce his story. That is it’s not an independent world.

IMO, illusionism very much has the moment to moment of play depend on what the players do. If the players decide to have their...

I don't agree that establishing the details of an imaginary world equates to railroading. To me, railroading entails something like...

I think the notion of wearing a body camera is an apt analogy. There’s a large preexisting independent world out there. If you want to...

Well if the world is truly being invented independent of players/characters (save what the characters can actually impact in the...

There seem to me to be a subtle, but essential difference between "Unless this is totally foreign to the area," and "unless a bluff like...

Thing is too, in a long campaign like mine there might be a run of an adventure or two where I end up leading them by the nose, either...

The player didn't determine anything there. Nor did the PC. The DM establishing/setting/determining the reality is not unusual in a...