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Given how the default setting is treated in 3E I would not like to see my favorite setting as the default one for the next revision of D&D. I mean, the default setting, Greyhawk in this case, hasn't evolved a single bit since the release of 3E. There are no real additional informations in the...

Garden of the Plantmaster....it's perfect!

Neil Gaiman, Monte Cook and Colin McComb sitting together creating the next installment of Planescape. Interior artists: Neil Gaiman and Tony Diterlizzi. That would rock big another one would be Terry Pratchett, Rob Kuntz and EGG doing the "real" fun version of Castle Greyhawk ;) or...

Thats very realistic IMO. I dont think the wizards in a fantasy world would sit together in a plenum and discuss about what spell should be researched next to keep everything orderly and consistent :) I imagine a wizard sitting in his tower thinking about a solution to a problem he had and the...

If you take a historical approach I think it wouldn't be possible to have a membership in more than one guild. Guilds were representing your profession (bakers, spice traders, smiths, jewellers, thieves, etc) and you join them to get protection against low quality wares, economical disputes...

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Methinks sometimes people forget what the true task of a DM actually is. He is the referee, the judge of the game. Dungon Mastering has nothing to do with absolute power and control over the game and its players. If you take this as the main purpose of the DM in a PnP session then I think it...

...and I thought LARPers were crazy.. :confused:

Oh yes, when I started with DMing I wanted to stick to the plot at all costs, because otherwise there was the fear I would loose control over the group of players. Thats even worse since I was already gaming for about 4 years or so as a player and I still didnt do it right. It took some time...

Absolutely not. I do not mean that railroading=planned encounter. Others have already said that you can place pre-planned encounters in the way of the PCs if they didnt take the bait some sessions ago. But you have to do it in a way that it does not look "forced" because that would leave a bad...

Absolutely correct. But then, wasnt that what I was talking about before?

I know there is no section in the rulebooks like "Page 95, Section 4-3: Patrol finds player characters" :o but there is something similar that exists since the beginning of D&D, it's called encounter tables.

This event IS railroading if the DM decided to have the patrol encounter the players -without rolling a % DC on the encounter, -without regard to the precautions the players (eventually) have taken to evade the patrols, -without acting with common sense, -just because he just wants it to...

When I ordered it back then I added some Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures and Beyond Countless Doorways with it.

Heh, I have a bookshelf full of D&D stuff and when a friend came for a visit some time ago the first time he glanced at the bookshelf he pointed at WLD and said "Whew, what kind of monster is this?"

I think it's becoming a railroading game as soon as the players WANT to go off the trail but the CANT. As long as everyone plays along, and has fun, its just linear gameplay :p

IMO there is only one responsiblitity: As some have already said: Everyone has to have fun with the game Given that, I actually do not think that the players are responsible to go along with a plot they do not like, or if they feel steered around. Also, to me doesnt sound overly fascinating...

Sure, if the players decide not to follow a plot the DM should let the plot unfold and decide what happens in the end due to the fact that the players didn't interfere. Then the players have to bear the consequences of their (non-)actions. Otherwise it would be static world, which would be kinda...

There is a situation where even the most ignorant player will see that the DM is railroading, at least in 90% of all cases: "The Armageddon Plot" (tm) See, there are alot of things a player can do to avoid railroading, even if the DM doesnt want that to happen. But if the DM draws the...

As others have already said, you do not really need an over-arching plot. I'd have a little chat with your players and try to find out what kind of game they would like to see. Perhaps they do not want such a plot but are instead quite happy to act as the adventureous group that travels where...