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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8719093" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm using some jargon here, which of course you aren't expected to necessarily know.  It would be a long side discussion to define the terms.But before we go any further, it's a bias of mine but when I read text that is poorly punctuated and filled with misspellings in a conversation like this that on the other end of the conversation the person is just shaking with rage and cursing at the screen.  Please tell me that you are just typing on the phone or something, or if you are actually as agitated as your text looks to me, I'll stop replying for a few hours and let you calm down.You keep using that term "rule of thumb".  Please believe me when I tell you that after 40 years of play and dozens of different tables and groups, there is basically no way of playing I haven't been exposed to or couldn't adopt if I wanted to.   This whole thing with how different groups using the same rules play different things through adopting different processes of play?  This is something I actively study and am obsessed with.   Processes of play are things I treat like treasures to put in a cabinet and get out and study and think about.  I've written more text than is probably good for me on EnWorld describing those concepts.When I bring "railroading" into the conversation, it's not because I don't understand the term.  I literally mean go read my essay on it the subject and see which of the techniques are familiar to you.For example, you responded to me by saying sometimes you fast forward through combats... and suddenly we have yet another railroading technique from my essay turning up as part of your process of play.  So I'm even more curious now about your aesthetics of play, because unlike a lot of people I don't use "railroading" as pejorative.</blockquote>

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