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Megan needs to eat larger plates of food.

Wow! And I thought it was the best superhero movie I've seen in years. I've grown weary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's approach.

Are you saying that people are routinely misunderstanding you? Strange. Perhaps if you expanded upon your thoughts and wrote longer comments it would enhance their clarity?

HAAAA! Oh, that was good. I walked into that one.

Fundamentally, I agree because I couldn't care less about the word -- railroading. I don't need it to know how I DM or to figure out how others do it. But dang if that one word hasn't given people conniptions. It has been used to describe literally tens of thousands of words of context -- an...

Mostly same page except for the dice rolls. To that I would say that the entire process of coming up with CR numbers for things, estimating what the "odds" of a player pulling something off are, is already hand-wavy guesswork. It's so far from science it isn't funny. It's not like fudging the...

In no way, shape or form.

Thanks!

What's the gist of it?

Do they discuss the decision to run D&D instead of DH?

What do you hope to achieve by this comment? Because I was trying to meet you in the middle and reach some kind of understanding with my last comment.

Your first paragraph is clear to me, and I agree with it. I do the same thing. I'm also assuming that your players like to play with you? You aren't tying them to bedposts or otherwise forcing them to play against their will? If they're onboard with the game, then that's also how I look at it...

I don't understand half of what you said, and before you say something about my capacity for understanding, I architect multibillion-dollar enterprise networks for a living. If the information were clearly presented, I swear to you, I would understand it. I know I've suggested it already, but...

Regarding the never-ending railroad debate, I've said that I plan my adventures. I plan key areas and encounters. I've also said that I fudge select dice rolls. I've also said that I tweak some encounters to make them easier or more difficult, modify my dungeons on the fly to add/remove...

If everyone had a good time, you did everything right.

IMO, in this thread there is an inverse correlation between the length of a comment and the level of understanding people have after reading it.

Well, it has become apparent to me over the past few comments by @pemerton, @EzekielRaiden and @Celebrim that each is saying, perhaps even thinking, very different things when it comes to railroading, so until the definition part of 'railroading' gets worked out, this discussion will continue...

Unfortunately, now, this one-sentence description of railroading fundamentally differs from @EzekielRaiden's a short time ago, and because of those differences I disagree with it. My response: "If a key component of railroading is the lack of player acceptance, either explicitly given or...

Holy crap, I think I finally get it. Thank you. Using the definition from your first paragraph, which should appear in RPG textbooks, frankly, due to its clarity, it seems like this has largely been about semantics. Here's my one-sentence response: "Based on your definition of railroading, I...

I would totally be willing to do this if I believed that everyone on this thread was using the term "railroading" to describe the same thing, but they aren't. I'd say, please describe your definition of railroading in one sentence without using the word "railroading" at all.