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Curious. How does a character in a game that doesn’t do that have something stolen from them without immediately knowing it? Is it ‘tell the player’ and have them ‘pretend they don’t know the item was stolen’?

Has McDonald’s improved order accuracy over the last couple of years? I feel like they went from getting my order wrong nearly always to doing much better.

What doesn’t look like GM fiat?

You said a lot but didn’t really answer my question. Surely tuning forks can legitimately be stolen. How does a legitimate case of that look to the character as opposed to an illegitimate railroading case?

How exactly does having something stolen look to a character when the thief rolls high?

Okay. I thought @Reynard meant it was different in respect to railroading. Was I mistaken?

What’s the difference?

Lack of 1 particular choice, especially for a particular aesthetic reason, isn’t railroading.

How is that a railroad? I think this is a prime example of confusing things one doesn’t like for railroading.

That’s interesting to me. Being railroaded doesn’t typically apply to crpgs save your one example and that determination revolved around your expectations. That’s part of why I brought up crpgs, to understand why the term applies to tyrpgs and not to crpgs. So far the best explanation has...

So is railroad being restricted to ttrpg’s instead of say something like Expedition 33?

Many RPGs are set up such that players are passive observers to the story and just actively play to overcome specific obstacles to progress the story.

Many video games try to emulate a grand story like Star Wars and have the player play through that specific story with specific characters that make specific decisions. Doing so in a game designed for that purpose is no more a railroad than Star Wars is.

I don’t know which position is yours since your 2 back to back posts explicitly contradicted themselves.

What first level feat gives access to hunters mark?

It’s such a minor boost though. And in the bladesingers corner it’s not even clear if the tradeoff to pick up hunters mark is actually worth the cost. Like that HM change doesn’t materially change where those classes rank. It’s like a millionaire getting a penny richer.

George Lucas wrote Star Wars. The characters have no choice but to go along the rails he already laid. Is Star Wars a railroad? I don’t think so. I don’t think many do. Star Wars is a story and stories are not railroads. Most games try to tell stories about specific characters, places and...

I’m struggling to find a practical use case on a non ranger where this is particularly strong. It still costs bonus actions. You still need extra attacks to really make use. If you decide you want to melee you still need to worry about concentration on whatever concentration spell you cast...

what do you consider a single solution?

What would?