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Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and...

If railroading as a term is kind of fraught, isn't "GM force" just as challenging? I don't know what boundary I would draw around "GM...

That's an interesting question. I think when they're not setting the course the PCs must take in any meaningful way, they're force but...

Ooof wow that's pretty bad. Particularly as there were a lot of real pagan places (in Central/Eastern Europe particularly) being...

Thanks for reviving this thread. I recently binged last year's Robin Hood series from MGM. It was a mostly enjoyable B-grade series...

That seems like a cynical ploy to get people to post Simpson memes, my friend.

We might even call that a monorail.

I mean, if you as a GM frame a situation such that there is exactly one solution, you kinda laid down the tracks already, right?

Sure it was. One act of railroading is still railroading. It's just a less-bad kind. This all feels a bit "Do they give a nobel prize...

They don't though. This has been shown time and time again. Those fans have a good idea of what they, personally and specifically...

If studios would ignore them..... That would be great.

That's obviously wrong. It's not even arguable. If you force the PCs into a specific situation with zero buy-in, and then delete the...

1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way...

So we can turn it to silent.

She wasn't just a pretty face. Attractive people are often underestimated, especially women, who tend to be underestimated in general. I...