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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8697885" data-attributes="member: 6779196">If you’re concerned some of your playersmight take issue with those things, sure. But sticking to the prep and improvising do not involve deceiving the players. Again, the entire premise of this thread is about railroading while making it seem like you aren’t railroading. Saying one thing and doing another. Unless you get confirmation ahead of time that the players are ok with you doing so, it is inherently deceptive. That’s not the case with strict adherence to prep or improvisation.But this isn’t just a matter of making things up and presenting it to the players. This is a matter of presenting something to the players that is false. It’s literally trying to trick them into thinking they have agency when in fact they do not. This isn’t me reading malicious intent into an innocuous statement, this is precisely the behavior the opening post describes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8697885, member: 6779196"] If you’re concerned some of your players might take issue with those things, sure. But sticking to the prep and improvising do not involve deceiving the players. Again, the entire premise of this thread is about railroading while making it seem like you aren’t railroading. Saying one thing and doing another. Unless you get confirmation ahead of time that the players are ok with you doing so, it is inherently deceptive. That’s not the case with strict adherence to prep or improvisation. But this isn’t just a matter of making things up and presenting it to the players. This is a matter of presenting something to the players that is false. It’s literally trying to trick them into thinking they have agency when in fact they do not. This isn’t me reading malicious intent into an innocuous statement, this is precisely the behavior the opening post describes. [/QUOTE]

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