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D&D is an exceptions based system. Things can't be done........until they can be. The only way I can fail is if the DM deliberately...

Because you are denying my agency to find one of the ways out there in the infinite cosmos of a game with exceptions to literally...

Are you going to railroad me by saying that there's nothing out there in the infinite cosmos that can possibly work to overcome? D&D is...

I agree with you that there are other perspectives to be sure. For me, though, if death is off the table the other consequences are...

I don't. That's the point. If my PC is immortal, why bother wasting the time playing out a combat encounter. Just tell me about how my...

No, sorry, this is just nonsense. The players have no information of the dragon attack, thus they cannot make choices for preparing to...

Well, apparently unless you just sit silently eight hours at the table whilst the characters sleep that is railroading!

But would they have known that if it was fully played either? Players basically never have full knowledge, as their characters do not...

Every time the party goes to sleep at night there's a time skip. Typically ~8 hours, unless there's an ambush or something that wakes...

I don't think I am, at least by how I understand railroading, and I think definition of railroading which includes any and all time...

I don't think so.

No, not all time skips are railroading. In fact, the overwhelming majority of them are not. How many games have you been in where...

Assuming such play is odd. In my experience many, many players are OVERLY paranoid and will take huge precautions. So should definitely...

In fact, all the stated description does is avoid the already-mentioned clumsy GMing. Nothing new has been added here. I mean, why...

I didn't call the mortals wizards. I said whatever kind of wizard Gandalf was, it was in addition to being maia. And I said mortals had...