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Let's say we have a scenario where the characters are approached/hired by the watch to help investigate a series of disappearances in a...

What purpose of the AIs might be served by blacking powergrids, I presume they need the power?

I think you would be playing a game of whack a mole and it would fail. I also think that LLMs are overrated. I also think that it will...

I agree with you with regard to greed but I think it is somewhat overhyped because these people have some staggering stock valuations...

The problem they are sounding the alarm and still going ahead. This makes me suspicious, if they were really alarmed why not stop?

The book says Exodus in big letters, and then in small letters uses the everyday English word traveler. There is no way Mongoose could...

Are you not following what people mean when you say these things, or are you just taking exception to the idea that the words aren't...

It is not just the words, it is anything relating to a particular commonly recurring phenomenon, railroading, simulation, narrative...

I don't think any other definition is useful. That's always been what railroad means; when players feel like the GM is taking away their...

Except we never have a conversation, some outlines something and someone says "sandbox" or "railroad" and the conversation always...

It's from the player's perspective, not the DMs. If they players feel they have no choices to make, then they are being railroaded. If...

No one is actually establishing a taxonomy, because everyone refuses to change their own definitions to follow a single one. ;)

But that completely misses the point. A railroad isn't a railroad until the DM tries to force the players back on to the track when...

I don’t know if I fully agree but I like this perspective. There’s no railroading test unless the players do something not in the...

Again this may be true but not useful in establishing a taxonomy.