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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5125643" data-attributes="member: 151">That's a very good point.  The point there was that it's a railroad because regardless of what they players did or want to do, that event will happen and it will happen exactly as the module says it must.  The module requires a specific event and outcome and the players are forced to enact it.And to be clear, I am not saying that the railroad is necessarily a bad thing, under the right circumstances.  The Slaver series was originally meant for tournament play, ideally in 4 hour slots.  It required such railroading to be effective and fulfill it's intended purpose.And in some cases, railroading works extremely well when the players don't realize that they've been railroaded.  If the DM is skilled enough, he can present the players with situations that will guide them without making them feel forced.  This takes some degree of subtlety and skill, but players can still find it very rewarding.  By the same token, the game may occasionally railroad players to their benefit and then return their freedom to them after the necessary railroading has occurred.  I've run games that were very railroady and I've run games that were very sandboxy.  Both were fun, for very different reasons.  In my one D&D game, they were on the rails for 2 years before breaking free and they loved it.  In my one GURPS Japan game, the players wandered with little preset notion of destination, encountering ninjas, a crazy Tea Master and the Angry Stump God, all with no greater sense of meta-story...and it's still considered one of the best games I ever ran, many years later.The only badwrongfun is when you Don't Have Fun, IMHO.  Everything else is just rigor and bookkeeping.   <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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