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For me, railroading is not when there is a specific path for the story to go in but rather when only a single solution to a given...

You're conflating getting to the need to come up with a solution, with solutions. I said not having a set solution is not force. Not...

“It’s only a railroad if you can see the rails, otherwise it’s a sparkling linear adventure.”

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...

IMO. One cannot have player agency at all without the possibility of a choice now to restrict choices in a later moment. If it’s...

Nothing was shut off except for one spell. The naturally occurring fey crossings were still a way off. Finding a creature or god that...

Ok. So how does me having a totally open situation and no constraints on the players' options (besides "no plane shift") translate to...

how much control over the narrative was there though, they did not have a spell component for some reason, apart from that they...

Having no set solution such that it's entirely player agency is not the DM exerting any kind of control at all.

That seems completely opposite of the general definition.

No. Having no rails does not equal a railroad. Having no set solution such that any reasonable solution the players come up with will...

The faewild stuff had nothing to do with the BBEG or main "story" at all. It was a side jaunt.

There were no blocked exit points. All that happened was that the tuning forks were stolen. There was no sequence of events. There was...

Gond might very well be a greater power in such a world.