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i said nothing about the difference being player buy-in, the destination is fixed in both cases, in linear and railroad, but how you get...

This seems to me to narrow the term out of existence. 'It's only railroading if the GM moves your arm when you roll the dice...

Yes, but isn't erroneous to point out that the conventional wisdom in the 1990s, which the Forge theories were written to rebut, was...

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...

Tariffs on PDFs are coming, bet

You're not allowed to join this thread, Snarf Zagyg wouldn't do that.

If this article is for someone, I've never met them. My friends and I used to homebrew bad ideas like crazy, and none of these were our...

what do they know of D&D they that only D&D know?

Don't listen to him! We love narcoleptics around here! In fact, we

No. That's just denialism, and by that logic no game since about 2016 has been at all successful, and no previous editions of D&D were...

As someone who literally owes my life to what I learned from Camus’ The Myth Of Sisyphus and The Rebel and Franks’s Man’s Search For...

You tell me, you were the one arguing that only D&D counted.

D&D has been insanely successful because it was good and because it was the first of its type. No other game can ever be the first RPG...

I addressed that: "I've found it fairly uncommon that people have other reasons than those." I don't see people showing data as to why...