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Correct, there are a lot of variables. But you're still missing the point. This IS the quest - to get out of the Feywild. It's not...

That is a fair criticism. I am not really thinking of it so negatively. I am thinking of it in terms of the DM reading the room and then...

So is an ambush a railroad?

It’s a tangent and not related to the OP but I can’t agree with you here. There is a huge difference between the - as you say - popular...

Yes, they require limitations. But the thing is that if the way by which the PCs were prevented from leaving seems contrived to the...

That is unfortunate that he said, "locked down." He also said, "closing gates." He also said, "using magic to steal tuning forks from...

I agree with your first paragraph for some scenarios. But for something like escaping a plane, in a game like D&D where players rarely...

The DM shouldn't be coming up with all the ways out in the first place. The players will often have great ideas that the DM never...

I was more thinking along the lines of a DM that prepares plotlines for each session, taking into account what happened last session...

So all the other spells would work to get them out of the Feywild? Here is what you wrote: In any reading I can do, that sounds like...

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...

Who decides reasonable here Max? You mean all DMs are reasonable. Ok. That actually goes along with my experience, but I know it doesn't...

Just so we are clear, I didn't call it a railroad. You left out the part of my quote where I said so specifically. I said that I have...

Not to be nitpicky, but you could wholly customize each experience for a player and still meet your definition of a railroad.