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The real kicker is that you can be railroaded in a sandbox. Players: We can go anywhere and do anything we want? GM: Thats right...

Yes it's the "only" difference. Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

No, you are choosing to be deliberately singular in definition of linear and not considering the context of the discussion.

It's actually pretty straightforward. Linear means One(ish) direction to go. An adventure is linear when the PCs only have 1 specific...

It's a gift, what can I say

------------------------ That joke made, I think people are (perhaps intentionally) talking past each other in that thread, and I am...

I had an AL table, where one of the player characters literally one-shotted the patron as soon as he showed up. No preamble, using his...

Conversely: TTRPGs are the only place where we can have the two parts of that actually, truly, interact dynamically. Video games cannot...

A lot of modules, I suspect, are failed novels. The author had a specific scene in mind, with the PCs here, the villain there, this...

I didn't know WizKids had these. Does anyone have any? Useful for D&D play...

Stop objecting. You're not the correctness police. That's why discussions fail to get off the ground. What do you want to accomplish...

If people take away anything from these long ENWorld threads, it should be these two things. 1) TTRPG gamers have wildly disparate...

Indeed. It took me some time to realize my best friends are the worst gamers. I had to meet them where they are at. Once I had the right...

Are you not following what people mean when you say these things, or are you just taking exception to the idea that the words aren't...

Ah, but this last part... Linear also means singular or one dimension focus. If the campaign premise is to find and hunt vampires, and...