Railroading is bad?

[Breakdaddy]

Railroading is only bad if everyone can see that they are being railroaded. Sometimes, and I mean RARELY, I will toss a track down and send the PC's on their way. This is almost exclusively when the game has gotten so far off track that nobody even knows what they are trying to accomplish anymore.

 

[RIPnogarD]

This is a mater of semantics, one says "plot line" the other says "railroad"...
If you were to give a player a cursed item, have it possess him and then grab his character sheet, thats just plain mean! If you are presenting options, ad-libbing encounters and pointing the players in the direction you, as the DM, want them to go, thats just DMing...

 

[shilsen]

Isn't that cleric only? And doesn't it prevent physical entry by non-aligned creatures as well? I'd expect there to be something a wizard could cast, as well as something that prevents only transportation - so that you could ward a throne room from teleportation in or out, but the visiting ambassador doesn't get fried trying to to talk to you just because he isn't your alignment. (And, big surprise, such a spell does exist IMC)

Dimensional Lock.