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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5408892" data-attributes="member: 26473">I think, once again, that this is attempting to broaden a definition beyond the boundaries of comprehensibility.A landscape feature, even a somewhat linear landscape feature, does not railroad players and their characters. A referee who coerces the adventurers by ignoring or negating their decisions to follow a specific path or course of action railroads players and their characters.Expanding the definition of a railroad to include landscape features leads to . . . well, this.A linear landscape feature is a linear landscape feature. They may be gauntlets if the referee is so inclined, but they do not railroad the players or their characters in and of themselves; the referee does if he forces the adventurers through the gauntlet.Sending guards after the adventurers when they commit a crime isn't railroading. An island which must be accessed by boat (absent other means like magic or a flying mount) isn't railroading. A road crossing a mountain range isn't railroading. Presenting the adventurers with a bad choice isn't railroading.Saying the adventurers are captured by the guards no matter what the players try to do, forcing the adventurers onto the boat or over the road, and taking away any choices is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 5408892, member: 26473"] I think, once again, that this is attempting to broaden a definition beyond the boundaries of comprehensibility. A landscape feature, even a somewhat linear landscape feature, does not railroad players and their characters. A referee who coerces the adventurers by ignoring or negating their decisions to follow a specific path or course of action railroads players and their characters. Expanding the definition of a railroad to include landscape features leads to . . . well, this.[b]A linear landscape feature is a linear landscape feature. They may be gauntlets if the referee is so inclined, but they do not railroad the players or their characters in and of themselves; the referee does if he forces the adventurers through the gauntlet. Sending guards after the adventurers when they commit a crime isn't railroading. An island which must be accessed by boat (absent other means like magic or a flying mount) isn't railroading. A road crossing a mountain range isn't railroading. Presenting the adventurers with a bad choice isn't railroading. Saying the adventurers are captured by the guards no matter what the players try to do, forcing the adventurers onto the boat or over the road, and taking away any choices is.[/b] [/QUOTE]

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