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I'd be more along the lines of: "Is everyone else really cool with taking the game in this direction?"

Thing is with things like robbing shopkeepers, it's not just the GM's fun that is at stake. It's potentially destructive of the other players fun too. Of course there's better ways to handle that situation then railroading. But it isn't necessarily something the GM should just be a neutral...

The default rules do tie ability rolls to skills, but then they also don't include Endurance, so if we're changing things... To me the test of whether something should be a skill is "is there anyway to directly leverage this to accomplish your goals" as I suggested above in the city example. I...

Most of the situations in which you would roll Endurance are arguably passive. Generally running is Athletics - that's the active part - weathering conditions is pretty passive. If your having any kind of long distance running competition I would think it should be Con (Athletics), snowstorm...

Not convinced those are different enough to be worth two proficiencies.

To me this depends mostly on how it feels to the player. I'm not particularly interested in if it is railroading technically, but a Rakshasa is a monster the DM needs to handle with care, or it may feel like railroading. And in the end there is no neutral court the DM can appeal to.

The question is do these really happen often enough to justify having a skill? I say this as an endurance athlete who really likes playing characters who are good at endurance and did so quite often in 4e and still for all that found it very hard to actively make use of the skill. If I want to...

I'm sure it is. That "If" was intended to do a lot of work.

If the argument against illusionism is that players will always find out eventually then there's no point discussing specific examples. It could after all be theorectically fine in the abstract but practically a bad idea. If you're going to argue that illusionism is bad in the specific then it...

Something similar is, I've found, actually quite common. This is when the GM has something prepared and everything else is just dull. So you arrive in town and there's something happening in the noble quarter. If for some reason the party don't wan't to check it out they will wander around...

I could see Free League making an offer for Star Frontiers if they thought there was an audience. Kickstarter limits the risk somewhat, and they've already revived Twilight 2000. What I can't see is why they would want to buy the TSR name.

Just on random encounters. It's a common misconception that randomness is antithetical to linearity. If a game consists of A-Random Ecounter-B-Random Encounter-C etc, then from the players perspective it isn't really any different to the GM having prepped all those encounters and forced the...

Then there's nothing to discuss because it's clearly not railroading unless we're assuming things that are unstated to be the case. That's why I brought up the original context. Because it's absolutely worthless without it.

So? Go back to 2011 and take it up with them then.

My example is directly equivalent to the orginal quantom ogre situation. Or if you think it's not you can explain why you think I've got it wrong. Now if you have the wrong understanding of what the quantom ogre situation actually is then I have provided quotes and links so you can rectify that.

No one has suggested such a ridiculous thing. See the post right above yours. That's not relevant to the issue at hand,

It's not the time the combat takes, it's the time the things that aren't combat take.

It doesn't have to be ogre related. In the original situation the GM gave the players a choice - but that choice was meaningless. That's the loss of agency. The GM could have just skipped asking the party where they wanted to go first and aggressively framed the scene. "Ok so you choose one...

Ok think about it this way. My character has 1hp and this is an old school game where 0hp is death. I know that if I have to fight a monster my character will probably die. However, we are this close to finishing the adventure. I decide that even if the chance of finding the macguffin is...

No. It's about the GM improvising the encounter on the spot. Think about it this way. The GM for some reason decides to roll a random encounter before the session. He rolls a 4. He doesn't even check what that encounter is. He just rights down a 4. It so happens that 4 means an Ogre. So...