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And mastercard has responded: https://www.thegamer.com/mastercard-response-to-gamers-adult-games-steam-itch-collective-shout/...

Simply put, I don't care what is being banned (in the context of the idea of censorship in general). I care who is doing the banning...

It is. I've seen them re-index (i.e. un-shadowban) some titles already.

Sure but your definition wasn’t ’most of the time you can get off anywhere’.

Sure. But that doesn’t mean that every bit of path has a possible exit, just that the path has possible exits somewhere.

Yea, ‘forced linear’.

I wouldn’t even call that a railroad if that’s what the players agreed to. At a minimum character backstory is authoring that players...

They could have started and stopped with just "The events of the story shouldn't be predetermined; the actions of the players'...

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...