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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4887543" data-attributes="member: 307">Well, ther auto-capture element is only one thing that makes the A series somewhat railroady. A3, for example (both the tournament and non-tournament versions), consists of two dungeon crawls with an interstitial sketchily laid out town investigation. The two dungeon crawls are literally a line of encounters. The dungeons themselves basically consist of a single corridor with rooms along the way and no way to deviate from the path. The PCs can go forward to face the next encounter, or go backward out the way they came, but have no other options.The tournament versions of A1 and A2 are a lot like this too, although the non-tournament versions allow for more freedom of decision by the PCs.The auto-capture element crops up, even in non-tournament play, because captuing the PCs is the only way to move them from A3 to A4. If you want to play out the series, capture is the only option, which many find railroady.</blockquote>