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So all games are railroads. Adventure paths encourage staying on the train for a long haul (campaign) sandbox encourages getting off one...

Sure, but as soon as something is picked and fleshed out by GM it’s an instant railroad, right?

So… mini railroads instead? Are they then subways?

Agreed. I consider there to be a difference between a Railroad and a regular road. When I take the train, I have to follow the railroad...

If this is true, I have no idea what not a railroad even means.

I would generalize further and say that any campaign that starts with the GM having an endpoint in mind (barring a TPK) is a railroad...

My own take (and it's not really mine - it's pretty influenced by Robin Laws) is that RPGing pretty quickly expanded to include a whole...

Yes! Yes I would! I would also champion players trying to take the biggest duce they possibly could! 😁 I often see the argument that...

Not always, and I wish folks wouldn't make such blanket assumptions. A linear adventure can encompass far more than that. Often, there...

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...