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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5587446" data-attributes="member: 1210">Sure they do (as long as it isn't a railroad). They could go into a megadungeon for the duration of the war. They could just be civilians and hope the fighting misses them. They could treat the Dragonarmy troops pretty much like any other wandering monsters. They could go off to the unexplored wilderness. They could take ship in the direction opposite the encroaching Dragonarmies.It is having the option to do these things removed that makes it a railroad. The same holds true in a setting where society is under the sway of a monotheistic and intolerant religion, where all other gods are forbidden. The pcs have no choice to deal with it in some manner, it will come up in play all the time. They will see statues of this god in all the taverns. Once a week people will expect to see them in the temple. If they don't tithe, people cluck and tsk. But is that a railroad? I don't think so. Is it a railroad if one of the pcs is a cleric of a different god and has to hide it? I don't think so.What if not going to church means he draws significant suspicion from society at large? I don't think so.What if it means there aren't npcs willing to heal him if he needs it? Still no.What if they persecute his faith and if he's caught with his holy symbol they'll execute him? Still no.A railroad happens when the players cannot make a choice because the dm will not allow it. "No, you can't go east, there are Dragonarmies."I will repeat the proposition that just because your choices suck doesn't make it a railroad.Yes. I'll even agree that there is a point where the pcs really do lose their ability to make choices because of the strength of the threat. I guess where we differ is on where that line is. It seems as though my tolerance for Devil's choices is far higher than most. If you can get off the tracks, even if it sucks, you aren't on a railroad.</blockquote>

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