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I am not saying your experience was this, but whenever I have seen something like that, it was because it was a GM that played improv...

Well, the last two or so pages of posts seems to once again confirm what I alluded to early on... The only difference between a...

But there are plenty of people who are perfectly happy to follow the lead and take the opportunity to play with the mechanics and do the...

You obviously misread what I said. I stated all of those are decision making points by the players. Hence, they can choose to keep the...

I hear and agree, but what that really means is we need to eliminate the term all together. Because if that is the case, I have never...

I like and really appreciate this way of thinking. As someone who played Middle Earth Role Playing waaaay back in the day, and ran a...

Until he eats their brians.

I misunderstood. Post retracted!

The answer in the modern campaign is no. Many won't even be scared of the illithid, thinking them as more like Zoidberg from Futurama.

I feel like the reason no one can agree on the definition is because playing an RPG is not A to B to C. If it were, then there would be...

So, in a railroad, if there is a path that runs through five sessions, but then depending on the choices you made in session three and...

You can't easily write a satisfying and interesting adventure without at least some assumptions of what the PCs are going to do. I mean...

Just for the record. If we decide to run just seven out of the twelve adventures, and then they want to see a different area or retire...

I don't consider that railroading. Lots of games have limited premises that require buy-in by the group. An expected, planned finale...

When creating materials, I have always broken this stuff down into three categories: Quests, Explorations, and Adventures. Quests are...