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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4575028" data-attributes="member: 66434">While I think these are both fine systems there is little, if anything, within these systems to prevent or promote railroading.  Railroading is more heavily influenced by poor adventure, rather than rules design IMHO. A badly written module, run off the shelf with any game system can be a catastrophe. Avoiding railroads is strictly the DM's job and he/she will succeed or fail in that regard, no matter what system is being run. Large railroad plotlines can be spotted from a good distance but its often the little engine that could railroads that end up spoiling otherwise decent adventures.  Any event in an adventure that is triggered by PC action with that action written into the adventure as absolute fact is easily a railroad event. Its every bit as easy to fall into these traps with OD&D and AD&D as any other system. As a matter of fact it must be so because the concept and practice of railroading existed before there was a 2E.</blockquote>