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I am not saying they cannot, to me that ability in and of itself is not a problem however, abuse is the problem. If the game tries to...

I am sorry but this just isn't true in my experience. Especially if you are running the game trying to emphasize giving the players...

I don't agree with that. I know people who would do this; or at least, who would like to think they would. I think making it a d20 roll...

one stubborn character does not make it a railroad, not even slightly. If this is your threshold for it, we will never see eye to eye on...

More interesting, yes. But is it true? There are some people who would easily cave. And there are people who would rather die than break...

yeah, your ‘resists’ and their ‘will not’ are really the same thing. If the characters resort to most of your suggestions they probably...

The DM is responsible for creating the fiction of the world outside of the PCs. I know that Bob the Rat Catcher is really a green...

I rolled a 20. The king must give me his kingdom!

I can only defend my own words. but I am saying this is not equal to a railroad. I agree if railroading is happening, railroading is...

If a GM always predetermines a result it's a railroad. But as the DMG states you can't hit the moon with an arrow so sometimes there is...

The GM. And this isn’t a problem. It is a feature. It helps with sandboxing if the GM is free to make interesting characters, some of...

but I addressed this. If the GM is just staying true to a character, and isn’t using it to steer the players towards a situation, it...

This seems such an expansive definition of railroading as to not be useful.

if on the other hand the rules say you can get anyone to do anything if you are just persuasive enough, that might prevent railroading...

Sure if he is just using some kind of setting rationale to railroad, then yeah it could be. But if that isn't the reason, the players...