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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9721848" data-attributes="member: 23751">That's linear, but not a railroad.  When I walk through a path in the woods, I usually opt to stay on it, even though I could step off any time I want.  The DM there has asked nicely for the players to stick to the adventure, but it is not required.  If the players agree and stay on the path, that's their decision, not the DM's.  They could leave the path if they wanted and the DM would have to improvise or call it a night.Really?  You think if you walk into a traditional game expecting to have a bunch of player facing ability to affect the fiction as a player you are being railroaded?  You aren't.  You have no right to agree to a traditional game and expect anything other than a traditional sort of game.  Any feelings of being railroaded are on you.  You aren't being railroaded, though.No.  You just shouldn't play in a game where you aren't happy. Agreeing to play in such a game, though, and then being unhappy with it being run as that sort of game, doesn't make you railroaded, no matter how unhappy you are with it.If I agree to a mud run, I don't get to say that they railroaded me into getting all muddy. If I don't want to get muddy, then I won't agree to a mud run.  To date I've never been on one and I doubt I ever will.  Mud isn't my thing.</blockquote>