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I think sandbox is a useful term. Maybe toybox would be better, but sandbox is fine. 'Here's a bunch of pre-defined things in a...

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...

mostly because people don't associate those negative connotations with the term sandbox, and some of them are just outright untrue.

My vote is for "open" or "open-ended". Openness vs linearity, as adjectives.

How would that even work?

Now y'all got me wondering why there isn't a new term to replace "sandbox" as "sandbox" has negative connotations attached to it...

All of these actions are a player being a jerk. The first is an example I specifically called out as unreasonable and unwarranted, and...

This would render differentiating between "railroad" and "linear adventure" kind of pointless though, wouldn't it? Where on the scale...

This, again, is why the only meaningful difference I can see between a "linear adventure" and a "railroad" is player buy in. If the...

So, in a railroad, if there is a path that runs through five sessions, but then depending on the choices you made in session three and...

I don't think that "platonic idea of a sandbox" as you describe it is a sensible one. The idea that the world would be static and...

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...

Our experiences are not the same then. I’ve had organic development in linear games based on narrative momentum. I’ve been railroaded...

Yeah, my bad, I guess I shouldn't have used the term "playstyle" and instead of said "things" in general. As I said in an earlier post...

The whole BG3 thing is a great example as to why I fail to see how "railroad" and "linear adventure" are definitions of different...