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I've been watching this thread, but haven't commented yet. In recent conversations that touched on railroads and linear adventures, I...

Was this thread a railroad because we knew where the arguments would end up, or is it a sandbox since we were free to say as we wish?

Trad hasn't cracked the code because it's impossible. You can't simultaneously experience a fantasy novel AND simultaneously have full...

At least you're on an even playing field with the other candidates. Might as well say you do (but you're under an NDA)

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

If sandboxing is the opposite of railroading then it should be called off-roading. (Clicks post reply and abandons thread forever)

Yea, I just disagree with all that. Now, when I DM, I want to run the game the rules said and trust that they’ll give us an interesting...

I think sandbox is a useful term. Maybe toybox would be better, but sandbox is fine. 'Here's a bunch of pre-defined things in a...

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.