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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...

I mean, I think they're useful distinctions because they speak to a GM's mindset and design practices, much more so than specific rules...

I'm not entirely sure that I agree with your last sentence. I think a lot of games with prepared endings are railroads, but there could...

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

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

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...

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...

I think your dungeon example illustrates the distinction I was trying to get at. Yes, players have meaningful choices within the...

I mean, I disagree that it’s so hard to guess what the players’ immediate next goal will be. But more importantly, if one does find it...

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

I’ll absolutely concur that if you run into people who object to their concept or usage you’re probably safer not playing with them ;).

Meguey Baker has an excellent blog entry noting that we should really call them “communication tools” and not safety tools. These...

Summary of the info from the stream that I found on their Discord:

It is one of the games I'm pitching to my online group. We did a mini-campaign of Daggerheart with the playtest and decided it wasn't...

At least in the version I'm looking at, Malice shows up on the encounter sheet for D1 where the adventure says to describe it to the...