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The 5e Spelljammer adventure Light of Xaryxis has a similar start. The PCs are in a coastal town when twig blights start bursting up...

I don't consider that railroading. Lots of games have limited premises that require buy-in by the group. An expected, planned finale...

I mean, you can determine your personal usage of the term in whatever manner you prefer. (As I am!) I don't think a game needs to...

Right, and like I said, it was a valuable discussion to have.

But that's why I don't like that usage; it camouflages the fact that having choices as a player doesn't mean the overall game doesn't...

No. Notice I said that the DM knows what's going to happen in the end, like an adventure path. The DM framing a new complication in...

I'm always in favor of concise, recognizable terminology. Getting there, though.... :) My personal definitions: 1) "Railroad" is a...

Have you never played a game where you simply start the characters in a situation and just see what happens?

I would generalize further and say that any campaign that starts with the GM having an endpoint in mind (barring a TPK) is a railroad...

Good post, sensible conclusion.

I think any adventure path is a railroad. The plan is for you to finish module #1 and go on to module #2. You might deviate off the...

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

The way to stop players disintegrating the expositing dying villian is to tell them “exposition incoming, do not interrupt”. You can use...

My own take (and it's not really mine - it's pretty influenced by Robin Laws) is that RPGing pretty quickly expanded to include a whole...

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