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I'd go a step further and say a GM needs to know themselves well too. There is a point you may be trying to drive a square peg through a...

Other than the sample ones that I listed in the post you were responding to? I agree that this is the only useful (to me)...

Damn, now I guess there is no difference between sandbox and linear RPGs.

I mean, it's true... :)

I don't think any other definition is useful. That's always been what railroad means; when players feel like the GM is taking away their...

There are no definitions of railroading that are useful because nobody will agree on a single one. As you and I can attest. :) To put...

When I say more like a novel, that doesn't necessarily mean that there's a predetermined plot already written before you even start. Not...

The campaign premise. Typically, there is either an occupation or an interest in place or series of events. Perhaps the PCs are law...

Sounds exactly like my linear adventures. 🤷‍♂️

That is essentially every RPG dynamic in which a GM presents and the players interact.

Yes. As many other people have made plain. If you don't want to see (or can't see) a difference... that's fine. But other people do.

I didn't say 'railroad', I said 'linear adventure'. They are two different things.

I've seen it cracked. Its in the presentation. A well written adventure path is going to be a like a recipe kit. It gives you all the...

You may be right, but the problem is that your interpretation lacks nuance and is taking the end points as the only points on the...

Neither ever fully happens. Everything is a rail road its just linear is a big one, and sandbox is a lot of little ones.