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One act literally cannot be railroading. It takes more than a single railroad tie(event) to build a railroad(series of forced events)...

That's really about the limit of when you can make play be character driven rather than party driven. I fully agree with one player and...

Cleave says you can make an attack roll, not an Attack action, and it specifies it can only happen once per turn (otherwise it could...

I think about it a bit differently. In the extreme cases we all agree what is railroading. One way of resolving term ambiguity is to...

I find that people have a railroad scale of 1-10 in their mind that is not the same for everyone. The OP of having the group portal...

How does that jive with challenges that really only should have 1 solution?

@Zardnaar It’s probably more balanced with other styles to not let GWM damage bonus apply to the cleave attack. However it’s probably...

OA can occur during attack actions as well, that doesn’t make them part of the attack action. Reaction to move after being hit against a...

Cleave Mastery has no reference whatsoever to the Attack action, presumably so it can be used during any action, Bonus Action or...

You know, I have issues with this being only two states, and only one party gets any input on what state you are in. RPGs are...

I mean, "We want to go to Sigil," vs "This campaign is set in ancient Ireland." There is a line. "The GM says No," can't be the...

To what degree? Where do "campaign constraints" turn into "railroad"?

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

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