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Level Up has packages of abilities for heritage. Two are chosen at first level, and the third comes in at tenth ("paragon" level). Each...

Each handhold is a little much perhaps, but there are D&D variants that are more granular than WotC 5e (either version). I play and/or...

I can see them thinking it was a good idea, but regardless it is exclusionary. I just think they were basically ok with it.

I really think that wasn't their intent, though. They simply assumed that the kinds of changes they were proposing were a natural...

Let us turn this around: What uses of GM force AREN'T railroading?

I would. They deliberately made a more specific, targeted game than they did previously. By definition that excludes folks who prefer...

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

Sure, but as you just said, this isn't a 5e thread. Other games do break out these things more than D&D, and certainly more than Shadowdark.

Characters are expected to succeed in the majority of combats they get into too, but that doesn't mean you don't go through process, for...

To me, the point of playing RPGs (as opposed to running them or worldbuilding) is to explore an imaginary world through the specific...

I don't think that's what he's saying at all. The whole point of light RPGs, or at least a part fo the point, is for the rules to fade...

How does a marketing plan take that tack without meaning to? That makes no sense to me.

WotC's 4e marketing strategy quite intentionally took the tack of actively punting all previous D&D editions to the curb, leading many...

Well, I've never played 5.5, just read about it, so I can't say exactly how it treats fighters (and that's not issue with it anyway)...

This last page or two is why I dislike the use of railroad to describe a linear adventure. It's very easy to confuse with railroading...