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This ignores the case in a sandbox campaign where the players simply decide they're not going to engage with the problem at hand any...

Then to be honest I would not consider that a railroad. Even less so if the players are playing in an adventure arc. They have already...

I think you are focused on the wrong aspect. Focus on unfairness. IMO players willingly accept that which they deem fair and don’t...

Usually it because the players understand how things are going and don't need to be forced at all once they've signed on. As I noted...

That's certainly a big one, but there's also the issue of how the PCs get from points A to B to C to D, which can, even if the overall...

Because railroad has a negative connotation established long before rpging. Example: ‘The innocent defendant was railroaded in the...

Except the breadth they take it to is--startling. For example, if you're running a game where the PCs are part of a military unit, the...

I feel like Champions has suffered from not being directly associated with Marvel or DC.

Its not common, but I've hit it more than once. When I pointed out that there were whole genres of games that excluded, they outright...

Though that requires everyone to be disciplined enough to stick to their lane.

An option that requires people to trade off their whole offensive is effectively useless most of the time; as I noted, it--at...

I'm being conservative; usually spy stories try to stick somewhere near but just a bit beyond the extent technologies and the...

Yeap, I know the type.

Oh, sure. Though I think the later in the AP it is, the harder this is as its likely to be based on earlier events.

I've seen people pretty actually claim that anything but a complete open sandbox wasn't even an RPG. Unsurprisingly, they were awfully...