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Well yeah, ultimately the type of fiction being authored is quite different. I was pushing back on the idea that the process is so...

Outside of Ezekiels response showing how in 5e there can be a lot of things decided after the attack roll is made, such as his examples...

Agreed, it's not degenerate. Constraining, yes, even boring if the specific rails you're on at the moment aren't to one's taste, but...

How is expressly blocking a players declared, and presumably 100% legal, action, just because the DM doesn't like it, not railroading...

Well, if the GM alters reality, I may be annoyed by that. The setting and world should be reasonably consistent. This is why I think it...

Which was also the case with the runes. Again, I'm not talking about someone who controls every decision. I don't care about the...

I don't see as strong a distinction between linear and railroad. They're metaphors... descriptors. And to me, they describe very similar...

Seems slightly ironic, all things considered.

It's a large detail in making a normative declaration about whether that game is being conducted properly. It's not a major detail in...

Because the only difference between those two games in their overall game trajectory and narrative arc is "whether or not the players...

The example this discussion refers to was provided by @Maxperson : it was a player who declared that their character picked their nose...

I don't think it's overly complicated. You're using the pretty standard usage of the term as purely pejorative, the general way it was...

Yep. Like I said in an earlier post, there's nothing wrong with a railroad if the players simply want to relax and enjoy the ride.

There are adventures that pretty much do so to keep the AP linear. Likewise, there are plenty of players that surrender character choice...

I wouldn't say that. It depends on the group. Railroads, linear play, and adventures can be fairly popular forms of play. My partner...