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So question on skill challenges because that’s the implementation I’m most acquainted with. How can one take into account the changing fiction after each success with a predefined number of successes before failures mandates. Even assuming the players make logical moves each check what prevents...

To me illusionism and consent would be navigated by a type of pre-consent as the nature of illusionism is that ideally you shouldn’t know which moments it’s occurring. So there’s a few critical states, you either pre consented or not and orthogonally you either are aware it’s happening or not...

Here’s a fun question. Is illusionism inherently bad? I don’t think so. I think it’s possible for players to voluntarily sign up for some occasional illusionism as a preferred method for keeping a linear campaign moving forward. Likely preferred by some players to more overt or metagame...

IMO. One reason power gaming could be reclaimed (not sure it ever actually needed reclaiming in the first place as it was often seen as a virtue depending on your social circle), but assuming it was reclaimed is because there were other words to describe the negative aspects that were sometimes...

I agree. I’d just add I think the notion of forcing someone to do something implies, even necessitates that you are forcing that thing against their will. That’s why I don’t think forcing them to do something they want to do makes semantic sense.

I mean, in boxing is anyone being railroaded? Is anyone being forced to do something against their will?

IMO theres seems to be 2 definitions of force in play, one is based on consent/fairness. The other is based on physically causing something to occur. I think we can all agree the GM causes X to occur and whether it was done with or without player consent or even player fairness. So maybe we...

My question would be, how can you force someone to do something when they consent to doing that something?

I just want them to use the terms correctly. Nothing to do with my personal lexicon. If that is your definition of force then I’d say it is unrelated to being railroaded.

Yea. I could have been more clear. But that kind of confusion seems par for the course.

I don’t think games in the right word, maybe playstyles. IMO if it’s a good question then that makes taxonomy considering it very important. What conversation specifically are you trying to have by this intentional provocation? That others distinction between what they mean by linear and...

@Maxperson. Even in this post I expanded that ‘everything’ meant ‘no paths off’.

The context that forcing everything was short for forcing everything related to keeping the players on a specific path since that’s clearly the context of what we were talking about.

Okay. I feel like you failed to take in the immediate context of the discussion for what I said. I could have been more clear but I think the context was there either way.

Unless the taxonomy has categories for whether the dm is behaving according to the players wishes or not. Then it’s still taxonomical. And Sometimes you just did the hole deeper. You’ve now admitted It’s now purposefully using a pejorative term for provocation. No wonder so many push against...

I wouldn’t call what the dm does force if they’ve agreed to have the dm place them back on the path in the event they wander off it. There’s a difference in saying, hey wizard polymorph me into a frog and the wizard forcefully polymorphing me into a frog without my consent.

That seems like a rather large detail? We even send people to jail or not based on that distinction. Sorry, but the way you show a playstyle isn’t bad isn’t to repurpose a pejorative term to describe it, it’s to use the non-pejorative term to describe it. I’d have some sympathy if there...

That’s helpful. So I should have been more clear. I thought it was clear the context was in regards to forcing to stay on a particular path. Thus ‘forcing everything when it comes to not staying on the path’. Which to me reads identical to @Maxperson.

If you voluntarily agreed to it then there’s no force involved. Don’t railroads involve forcing the players to stay in the path?

I guess my question there is why not keep the standard meaning of the 80’s and 90’s term when we have a different term to reference the exact thing you describe? (Also notable is that railroaded is not a term that originated in RPGs it’s much older than them, and was always perhorative). Or...