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1. Not a railroad. 2. Generally I don’t. For me a railroad is more of an extreme thought experiment construct than a term describing...

In this case, the failure came with additional information: the spell did not fail, rather the caster discovered that their planar...

One spell failing to achieve their goal does not a railroad make.

There has to be more to it than that, I'd think, else this is just a rewording of the basic granular play loop common to all RPGs...

Instead of pitting it as stakes vs no stakes OR diegetic vs non-diegetic perhaps we should break that into 4 categories. Stakes and...

I agree with your take but anytime one with quasi police powers weighs in it can have a bit of a chilling effect on the side that...

Wait, the only substantial disagreement from the last exchange was about the term immersionist? Couldn’t you have just said, yea but I...

I have. I don’t think it’s silly at all.

But player facing doesn't mean "not meta". Where you are on the clock does seem to be at least partially meta.

I struggle to reconcile that take on clocks. The effects of filled clocks are fiction facing, but going from 2 to 3 ticks on a 6 tick...

I think it is pretty easy to grasp from immersionist perspective. Succeed at the goals of the character. Those goals might be stupid or...

We've both been in those threads, ducking the flung poo.

Sorry, was saying that about 70% in jest. So that’s fair.

You’re right. It seems they only are when it’s D&D ;)

I kind of agree about traditional style RPGs. But they don’t pretend they are not doing that do they?