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That only follows logically if you believe the sole sin is deviation from the original at all, not the nature (or arguably degree) of the deviation. Which would be a very strange and unusual view. Almost universally, people grade deviation from the original on the basis of whether it serves the...

Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and it's group-specific but also game-specific. I know the "pay a Fear" in Daggerheart lets you get weirdly high levels of buy-in on stuff players might be moaning...

That's an interesting question. I think when they're not setting the course the PCs must take in any meaningful way, they're force but not railroading. That's going to be judgement call on a case by case basis but so are all "railroading or not?!" questions. Like, if you stole the spell...

Ooof wow that's pretty bad. Particularly as there were a lot of real pagan places (in Central/Eastern Europe particularly) being attacked by Christian invaders at that time, but very much Britain wasn't one of them. Also the Normans were really awful (c.f. The Harrying of the North, which was...

Sure it was. One act of railroading is still railroading. It's just a less-bad kind. This all feels a bit "Do they give a nobel prize for attempted chemistry?" as an apologia. This is silly literalism of the kind that is seemingly preventing you from understanding the issue. Your analogy...

They don't though. This has been shown time and time again. Those fans have a good idea of what they, personally and specifically, like and dislike, but not the larger group of people who will go and see a movie or play a game or the like. "Serious fans" have very often predicted something...

That's obviously wrong. It's not even arguable. If you force the PCs into a specific situation with zero buy-in, and then delete the most obvious solution in a way that may be perceived as questionable (which "Uh this one specific material component vanished" is imho), that's absolutely exerting...

1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way the universe works to force a specific course". It's not outrageous railroading because it's not totally inconceivable that someone would come up with a spell...

Wooooooooooowwwww there's named after someone controversial or dodgy or with allegations around them, and then there's named after a guy primarily famous for being not only insanely pro-slavery (even by the standards of the time he was regarded a "radical" on slavery) but also a self-admitted...

The media in general was, as the laws around it tended to be a lot more restrictive. The situation we have now though isn't the laws restricting the media. It's the media choosing to not to show stuff without even being told not to. (I will say this weirdly seems to be war-type violence...

Londoner here, born in the sound of Bow Bells so very much technically a Cockney. Still live in London, back in North London (near Tottenham). I have an apparently somewhat transatlantic accent a lot of the time (my wife is American) so get accused of being "Canadian" by people trying to place...

So does setting after the game, though. They both have the same issue - you have to pick a "canon". Also you're massively overselling how different people's experiences are of the main plot beats of the game (which is all a TV series would likely cover even if they did go over the original...

You keep making these claims about what people are saying, but include no quotes. Reading the thread nobody is saying what you're claiming they are. So this is on you.

Okay I watched a TV series called Red Eye, which is a thriller mostly set on an aeroplane flying non-stop from London to Beijing, and I have to bring this thread back. There will be spoilers for the show but I don't think they matter much. It gets a lot of little technical stuff right...

Yeah I think this combined with a general late 2000s-era fad for "he's a jerk but he's right!" characters who were curiously almost always about well-educated white men about the same age as their showrunners (I wonder why) and a slightly earlier and less awful trend of "flawed detective"...

Holmes in the original stories is most assuredly not courteous, empathic and kind as a rule - at times he is all of those things, re selected people and situations, but he is frequently none of them and it's not always towards people who deserve it, indeed his treatment of Watson is downright...

Oh yeah that was season 6. Basically they should have skipped most of S6 and S7 and certainly should have ended the show on the car crash. S8 was totally pointless. I disagree re entertaining, Braugher and Miranda tried but only S8 dragged harder than the mental hospital one (which I see now is...

Filoni frantically taking notes. Good lord that's somehow far less plausible than I anticipated! Even by Star Wars standards that is kind of a reach! I always assumed the retcon was someone got to him pretty quickly and shoved him in a bacta tank or similar. But no. He fell through a reactor...

Great soundtrack but what an accursed cast, only 2 out of 5 of the leads don't have significant "controversies" or "allegations" sections on their Wikipedia pages (lucky they cast Emilio not his brother!). I was thinking "Oh man nobody talks about that movie anymore" but I suspect that may have...

I think you have too much faith in spy agencies. They're nowhere near as competently or safely run as hospitals. Hospitals have legal liabilities, and require a degree of transparency and traceability. Spy agencies have legal immunity and total secrecy. And indeed the CIA particularly have been...