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Competition doesn't have to mean an existential threat to WotC's business. It could just be that the company is going to miss its growth...

I remember the original Dragonlance books being published, and some of my gamer friends were really excited to play the modules they...

This is the definition I go by as well. As opposed to linear, where the players are fully aware that there may be only one choice and...

I had the players try repeatedly to evade and defeat these rioters, who were surprisingly tough. Finally, I had to break character to...

interesting, not a term i believe i've come across before. my own definition of railroading boils down to 'it's when the GM repeatedly...

Yeap, im seeing it here too. It's examples like this that lead folks to claiming any published adventure is a railroad, when its just an...

Railroading is admittedly hard to define, but I know it when I see it. I well remember when I ran modules for the Living Arcanis...

The difficulty with pinning down “railroading” is that the word isn’t just about technique—it’s about power dynamics inherited from the...

I'm thinking about things like the Hexploration Deck, a deck of cards and tiles to inspire world creation. I backed at $100 plus...

The latest development in the US tariff situation has placed an $80 flat free on all imported packages, even if the tariff would...

If sandboxing is the opposite of railroading then it should be called off-roading. (Clicks post reply and abandons thread forever)

Having "plot hooks" or prepared situations is not railroad, as long as the players have agency to choose what to do with those. Some...

I think there is a very compelling argument that a game becomes a railroad when the GMs track laying and railroading techniques are so...

The problem with this is that either you have to accept a dungeon map is an example of railroading, or else accept that railroading is...