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I literally have no idea how that is different than Option B...

Okay, so the GM creates a series of scenes and encounters for the PCs to engage with, a path for them to follow. Option A: The players...

Well, the last two or so pages of posts seems to once again confirm what I alluded to early on... The only difference between a...

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

I believe it's because they don't think you are "roleplaying" when you do that sort of thing. They would construe it either as...

Well, that's just...dumb. 🤔🙃

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...

My point is that there "pre-plotted" and "sandbox" don't exhaust the possibilities in RPGing. It's possible to have surprises, twists...

Well that doesn't make sense!?! I mean, if is played on a table top (or vtt), features role-playing, and has codified rules making it a...

Well sure, but I did address that separately. "3: The first part is just false, sandboxes can surprise anyone. 'Narrative twist'...

Glad to have been of help, then. Now I can't help wondering what things shake out if someone tries to mix styles but bungles one of the...

There are ways to get surprises, twists, endgames, meaning and story in RPGing, without pre-plotting. Maybe the person complaining about...

I actually really like the "wasteland" moniker! Not only does it describe the emptiness, but also implies that the game will be a waste...

Does it? I'm surprised to hear that. I certainly think it has meanings--whether denotation or connotation--that mean folks avoid it...

Again, I don't accept this definition as phrased because it makes all sorts of things "metagaming" when they trivially obviously aren't...