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Oh, I know it bothers people, sort of like how I know lots of people don’t like spicy food. I just can’t make myself feel empathy for it.

There's been a long-running argument that principled restrictions on the GM's power don't count unless you can look them up and cite...

I kind of agree with − if there is only one rail − then it is still a railroad. If the players can get on and off the rail easily, then...

You don't know why this bothers people because we have different expectations of play.

This is where playstyle and preference make all the difference. My setting actually has billions of NPCs that exist within it. This...

If feels more like a railroad to me if every obstacle must be overcome in a specific way to the point where even a failure must be...

Because the cook is there regardless of the player's roll. Haven't we been through this?

Players opting to get on the rail doesn't make it not a railroad. If everything the players do propels them down the same path towards...

Well, my world is more than a bubble surrounding the PCs and their interests. Making and populating that world is a major source of fun...

If there's nothing particularly challenging about entering the house, there really shouldn't be a roll. The DM should just narrate the...

The framing is very important to me, because it determines what is actually in the world at this moment, not just the results.

If that's the case and it's not just something that moves the story forward, then it's very much a railroad technique. The DM is...

Their skill at lock-picking? That's the skill in question here.

I have literally never had a player request a roll in that sideways manner. If someone says they want to do something that contains...

And it actually does! Because the DM put the work in outside the playspace at the table. I think it's silly to assert that in a game...