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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2353500" data-attributes="member: 2067">Rather than say that's not railroading, I think you should be asking yourself if railroading is always a bad thing.Truth is, it isn't. Just like power gaming isn't always a bad thing.And to prove how useful this new book is, I'm gonna say the DMGII gives some good insight into this. Of course, when railroading breaks verisimilitude, it becomes a bad thing. As is the case with a DM who dictates PC actions to ensure a villain escapes, in effect describing a static cutscene instead of playing the game. The PC's could easily do something to stop, but the DM precludes it from happening. This happens more often than you might think -- there are many occasions when the game gives the PC's a power that the DM does his darndest to make not impact his story. Dungeons that preclude teleportation, invincible villain speaches, inexplicably useless divinations, wishes that constantly backfire, etc., etc.</blockquote>