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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7922948" data-attributes="member: 29398">On paper (or screen) that.s all fine.However, several of the examples of Force/not-Force have largely revolved around how said content is presented, which makes things a bit more complicated.If a GM is neutral - even coming across as almost uncaring - in the presentation of various elements, hooks, and whatever else, then there's little if any force involved.  But if the GM isn't neutral, or presents only one option, or drops big hints saying "go this way!", then you've got Force...which in this case does somewhat equate to railroading. (that said, a sandbox DM dropping hints to the effect of "don't go that way!" when the 1st-level party seem hell-bent on raiding the Tower of Endless Vampires is IMO perfectly acceptable use of Force; and if the players/PCs ignore the hints then so be it... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Depends on scale.It may be somewhat foreordained on the large scale that the party's going to go through adventures A, B and C but how they approach any of them and-or what they do or accomplish in the process of going through them might not be foreordained at all.  Aso not foreordained might be how these three adventures will or won't string together into any sort of coherent story then or later - the DM's just gonna run 'em and see how things fall out.</blockquote>

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