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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5586668" data-attributes="member: 1210">All of the following is IMHO: Nothing you said here is a railroad. "The world ends because you didn't act" is not a railroad."You guys have to go deal with the power in the east" is a railroad.I don't think anyone is missing your point. We are disagreeing.No it isn't. I don't see any dragons overhead or a big fat pile of gold in my bedroom.Again, you are factually incorrect. I quit a good job a couple of years ago. People commit murder, people let stuff go, people act irrationally or against their own interest all the time.And what does life have to do with whether or not a game is a railroad? Life is a whole different story. Your proposition sounds like "Your character's background is a mason, so why would he risk his neck and give up a fine career to go fight monsters?"Hello entire modern world! And I have to call bullcrap. People ignore their best interests every day. Do you drink soda or smoke? Do you eat fatty foods? Do you exercise for hours every day? If there's a threat to your character's interests, you don't have to deal with it. You can walk away... unless you're in a railroad. In fact, that's a good test of whether you are in a railroad; not are there consequences if I walk away?, but can I walk away?"The alternatives are unappealing" is not a railroad. "There is no alternative" is a railroad.No it doesn't. They simply see that they must deal with the consequences of their actions or inaction."Do the research" meaning "read your blog"?No offense, but why on earth do you think the fact that you wrote a blog about it makes you the authority on what a railroad is? That said, you seem to be arguing for a substantially broader definition of railroading in this thread.Oh, sure. But it doesn't matter how it feels. What matters is this: Do I have a choice? Not Do I have a choice with no bad repercussions? or Do I have a decent choice? or even Do I have a choice that doesn't totally screw me? The question is, Do I have a choice?Fair enough. But irrelevant to what actually constitutes a railroad.</blockquote>

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