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The "I have certain scenes prepped, and I will introduce massive friction if the players attempt to go in any other direction" is...

I mean, you can determine your personal usage of the term in whatever manner you prefer. (As I am!) I don't think a game needs to...

No. Notice I said that the DM knows what's going to happen in the end, like an adventure path. The DM framing a new complication in...

Have you never played a game where you simply start the characters in a situation and just see what happens?

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...

So, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the AP but essentially each giant lord had a conch which the PCs needed only one of to...

Good post, sensible conclusion.

Our current experience reflects the campaign to be sandbox, but the Adventure Paths that are merged within the campaign, which has other...

You cant jerk proof a game. The nonjerky reason for cutting the bad guy’s speech short is that sometimes these speeches come with a...

The way to stop players disintegrating the expositing dying villian is to tell them “exposition incoming, do not interrupt”. You can use...

“The Forge is wrong . Heres why …” [proceeds to actually agree with The Forge]

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...

I think your dungeon example illustrates the distinction I was trying to get at. Yes, players have meaningful choices within the...

Well, my personal take is probably odd, but as far as I can tell by what is described as what actually happens at the table, is that a...

That's all the more reason why I personally find the argument against minions to be somewhat absurd. In the fiction, they are all ogres...