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Sure, but they aren't being used to protect anyone from malevolent actions. They are there to prevent someone from tripping and falling...

This is the most reasonable statement of the position I've seen yet, but I think it still goes too far. Hooks are a convenient means to...

Basically, when a GM sits down and engages in world design and/or scenario design then they are doing the same thing a video game level...

Just touching on this particular point, 5e is a follow-up and expansion to the 4e rejection of codified task DCs that started with skill...

The nice thing about formalized rules is that by agreeing to play under them, all the participants accept that implicit accountability...

I do not think it's inherently railroady. I do think this sort of thing should be meaningfully knowable before it likes trips people in...

To make it clear, I don't expect rules to substitute for accountability; I expect them to make it less frequently necessary in the first...

Yeah, the people who are big proponents of GM empowerment almost always seem to pull out the idea that managing it implies that most GMs...

We are working from fundamentally different assumptions about what constitutes railroading. In my view, the distinction lies in whether...

Right, the limits of the situation are what make the gameplay interesting. You get faced with a board you can make limited moves on, and...

I don't really have a dog in this fight but I don't believe this is what's being asserted. I think what's being asserted is that in...

I do not accept Hussar as the One True King of Playstyles. (Nothing personal, Hussar) I reserve the right to think that maybe...

I'm going to take the other side of this, just a little. An increase in speed if it did not reduce the other elements you value would...