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Nah. Ironsworn alone is proof enough that the minimum necessary amount of railroading is zero.

Well then, I agree that it can be railroading. You're going to have to do a hell of a lot more than anything you've said thus far in order to get me all the way to "it is ALWAYS railroading". Because, as said above, I don't do timeskips (not even sleep!) unless the players explicitly agree that...

Critical difference here, compared to previous framing, at least as I had understood it. Here, you're saying that these techniques can be railroading, if used in a manipulative, deceptive manner. Bull-rushing toward GM-desired things, digging in heels against GM-undesired things. Previously...

I mean you can make any combat boring, in a host of ways. But what you mean is, do I see combat with no life or death stakes as automatically boring? And the answer is no. I think it can be meaningful, if there are other consequences. Nope! Because you've literally just made the argument...

And that remains a mere assertion, not something you have even remotely proven. Unless and until you do that, all you're doing is asserting you're right, and then concluding from that that I must be wrong. Edit: Further, using examples solely derived from the Forgotten Realms isn't any more...

But there aren't exceptions to literally everything. It is in fact extremely important to many things that this be true. Some things are just...true. There just isn't an exception. Because the artifact doesn't exist anymore? Because the material cannot be reproduced? The Silmarils were unique...

how is that railroading???? Like...what?? Let's say an artifact gets destroyed. That artifact is gone! You aren't going to be able to rebuild an artifact created by a long-lost civilization using knowledge lost to time, materials nobody knows how to replicate, magic that is literally not...

but...like... You've literally just said that you CAN lose. And tactics...are what make the difference...? If you can lose and tactics can in fact be what differentiates things, why does loss absolutely NEED to be death? You've already said that loss can occur that isn't "my character died"...

I just see that as incredibly boring. That's like saying you could skip Lord of the Rings by being told, "They climbed Mount Doom and the Eagles rescued them. The end." The blow-by-blow is the point, even though you can know with pretty much total certainty that Tolkien would never write a...

Why can't combats meaningfully affect the story even if you just get captured? Like I genuinely don't understand how or why that is an automatic thing. If you get captured and can't save the queen, the queen DIES. The nation is in chaos. Evil won. Why isn't that meaningful?

All of these are still predicated on the assumption that: (1) If you're alive you can ALWAYS fix EVERYTHING wrong (2) No consequences are ever permanent except death (3) You can never lose something you care about All of these are wrong. Heck, that second one is wrong in both directions...

Common enough that I have yet to see the exceptions. Yes.

Every single game I have ever played, or heard spoken about, where the game goes out of its way to remind you how dangerously lethal it is, survival becomes the only consideration. Everything else is swept off the table because death stalks your every move. Note the poster above who...

Only if you're actually ready for that kind of story. As someone currently right now in real life struggling with making sure life does, in fact, go on? Yeah I really, really, really do not need that kind of thing in my life right now. But I get quite a bit of value out of playing TTRPGs...

I'm given to understand that it was meant to be plug-and-play for nearly any setting with a pseudo-medieval situation. Like Dark Sun probably wouldn't work, but most others would. I imagine it would be dead easy to drop into 13A's Dragon Empire, for example. Then, the Gods of Light and of...

I have articulated my stance on death many times here, but it's possible you have not previously seen it. I am opposed to deaths that are all three of: Random: Caused by factors completely beyond player control or accounting, e.g. random orc mook #7 got a lucky crit and rolled max value the...

Because then you can do things that aren't about survival, but instead about achieving other goals. That's...literally what makes Superman an interesting character. His story is a firefighter's story, not a warrior's story. Against any Kryptonian with actual combat experience, he straight-up...

You joke, but if D&D actually had an official Final Fantasy XIV crossover book, it might be the first time in genuinely a decade that I want to buy a WotC book.

Technically, I could still be proven wrong. If they published no books other than those explicitly announced as of today (which aren't predictions so they don't count), then it wouldn't be a positive integer number. But yes, the point was more that we have no information to make any guesses...

I predict a positive integer number of books, which will have themes, and include content both for GMs and for players.