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Rather than respond to each sentence individually, I’ll address your key themes. As I said before, railroading appears rare at most D&D tables. Unless there’s data to suggest otherwise, I don't see evidence it's systemic, nor does it pose a threat to anything. There's no railroading D&D crisis...

First, my comment wasn't directed at you. It was directed at @pemerton. You interrupted. Second, you're feigning outrage because someone asked you to substantiate your hypothesis with data. You and @pemerton have already left dozens of comments on this thread insinuating widespread railroading...

It sure feels like someone pushing an anti-D&D agenda, doesn't it? I'm not denying railroading exists (although I agree that the whole thread comes down to semantics), but unless there's data showing it's common, acting like it's an inherent flaw is a stretch. I've yet to see anything beyond...

What you haven't done yet in this thread is demonstrate that gaming is facing an actual problem here. You've said that certain things would be a problem for you -- which is your right -- but not that they're actually happening often enough in real life to be a crisis. What's the threat you're...

Multiple people have said they rarely see it, yet you're still trying to make it sound like a sizable percentage of players are sitting down at any of the thousands of D&D tables playing on any given night in game stores and living rooms across America and being railroaded by authoritarian DMs...

Don't be sorry. It's OK.

I feel like this might be a trap...but why would someone assume everything would unfold exactly the same way the second time around?

Fair enough, but if it's the money that's swaying you...it would be trivial for a 6-year-old with adult intellect and the ability to predict the future to make far more than $10 million.

Worth the risk for some, I'm sure. I have a friend who lost both of her parents when she was 9 years old. Changed the course of her life. Would be tough for her to not think about trying to alter the course of that bit of history....

1 in 216 to get to the fourth d6, BTW.

Heaven help us all!

Truer words were never spoken, Scott. And yet, here we go again! Watch out! The creeping scourge of railroading in D&D, wherein DMs confine players to rigidly predetermined paths and tie them to uncomfortable chairs, is eroding the spirit of collaborative storytelling and diminishing the...

I did not say you did.

Yes...but I'll be the first to admit that I can be similarly charming (in the way you used it) and suffer from the same personality quirks, behavioral tendencies and emotional afflictions as most others. I wonder how many people are truly only visiting enworld because they like RPGs and not at...

Not gonna lie; I really hate that.

To each their own, but it's wildly incompatible with fantasy fiction, which I realize some here have said they aren't influenced by in their games (something I find verrrry hard to believe).

It's tough to make any conclusive, definitive statements about railroading or much of anything here without it causing a battle because there are so many profoundly different definitions and strong opinions (mine included). Some folks define "railroading" simply, with very clearcut boundaries on...

The key is to not even mention the wagon, because once you mention the wagon, we are on! Get outta my $*%@# way, y'all! I'm heading straight for that wagon!!!

Aaaaand there's your zinger right there. Try as some might (will), it's very tough to intelligently refute that. Attempts to do so reveal more about the commenter than the subject matter.