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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2960697" data-attributes="member: 18280">Excepting, of course, that by their very nature, the mists of Ravenloft force you to deal with a certain prescribed area & what is therein (generally speaking, a discrete adventure).If this is true, though, then knowingly following an adventure path isn't railroading.  The DM doesn't have control over which adventures occur.  Rather, the players agree to follow a course of adventures that constitute a campaign.  No coersion of players, and hence no loss of control, is implied.Unless, of course, you would argue that allowing players to choose to follow a particular path is railroading.....  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> (ASIDE:  I do understand the distinction between freeform play, which is my preference, and a more linear campaign, but I do not agree that a linear campaign is perforce railroading.  I would argue that railroading requires a usurption of player control that results in linear play.  The adventure path has linear play, but no usurption of player control [assuming the players agree to play it] and hence is not a railroad.   In your demiplane, if the NPCs can leave [caravans?] and the PCs cannot, I would certainly feel that there was an element of usurption of player control, but it does not result in linear play, and hence is not a railroad.  If both conditions are not met, I don't buy it as a railroad.)RC</blockquote>

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