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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8695213" data-attributes="member: 5889">Because again, you are looking at it way too rigidly.Lets say the party travels west. If they do so, they will likely meet the King of Arkenor, and PC 1 will be reuninted with his lost love. If they go north, they will find a people suffering a plague, and will have to decide how they want to intervene. But either way they go, the DM plans a bandit encounter.Does this identical bandit encounter suddenly mean their choices don't matter? Of course not! Player choice can matter, without mattering in every single possible way. Maybe the DM pulls out a few of the tricks mentioned in the article, but at the end of the dungeon the players find a hostage situation in which their actions and words might be the difference of life and death for the young woman held hostage. Does that mean for that dungeon the player choices didn't matter? Of course not....it mattered a great deal....just not in every single possible way.Its a spectrum. Just like a DM creates combat encounters that sometimes lets PC 1 shine, and sometimes lets PC 2 shine.... they craft adventurers and dungeons that are a combination of important player choices and just bits that move things along without being very impactful. and as long as you ensure that enough of the player choices are impactful and meaningful, then you have done your job. If you are railroading so much that the players feel like they are in a movie instead of an interactive story....than you have gone to far. It is a spectrum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8695213, member: 5889"] Because again, you are looking at it way too rigidly. Lets say the party travels west. If they do so, they will likely meet the King of Arkenor, and PC 1 will be reuninted with his lost love. If they go north, they will find a people suffering a plague, and will have to decide how they want to intervene. But either way they go, the DM plans a bandit encounter. Does this identical bandit encounter suddenly mean their choices don't matter? Of course not! Player choice can matter, without mattering in every single possible way. Maybe the DM pulls out a few of the tricks mentioned in the article, but at the end of the dungeon the players find a hostage situation in which their actions and words might be the difference of life and death for the young woman held hostage. Does that mean for that dungeon the player choices didn't matter? Of course not....it mattered a great deal....just not in every single possible way. Its a spectrum. Just like a DM creates combat encounters that sometimes lets PC 1 shine, and sometimes lets PC 2 shine.... they craft adventurers and dungeons that are a combination of important player choices and just bits that move things along without being very impactful. and as long as you ensure that enough of the player choices are impactful and meaningful, then you have done your job. If you are railroading so much that the players feel like they are in a movie instead of an interactive story....than you have gone to far. It is a spectrum. [/QUOTE]

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