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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 2963914" data-attributes="member: 29398">So to be clear, you're referring here to what others are calling &quot;macro-railroading&quot; on a campaign level, rather than &quot;micro-railroading&quot; within a single adventure...right?&nbsp; I'm willing to bet (but could be wrong) that most people are more concerned about micro-railroading within an adventure, and are mostly willing to leave the overall storyline (if any) up to the DM to engineer (pun intended) as s/he sees fit.In the end, regardless of all other considerations, it comes down to one thing: if the DM can't at least within broad parameters run what s/he wants to run, there probably won't be a game at all for any players to make choices in!&nbsp; :\ I usually try to &quot;storyboard&quot; a few adventures ahead, so if something down the road needs a hook or some buildup now, I can do it.&nbsp; If the players ignore it or decide to do something different, so be it...but that's not going to stop me trying to plan ahead, and nor should it, though I get the strong impression some here think otherwise.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 2963914, member: 29398"] So to be clear, you're referring here to what others are calling "macro-railroading" on a campaign level, rather than "micro-railroading" within a single adventure...right? I'm willing to bet (but could be wrong) that most people are more concerned about micro-railroading within an adventure, and are mostly willing to leave the overall storyline (if any) up to the DM to engineer (pun intended) as s/he sees fit. In the end, regardless of all other considerations, it comes down to one thing: if the DM can't at least within broad parameters run what s/he wants to run, there probably won't be a game at all for any players to make choices in! :\ I usually try to "storyboard" a few adventures ahead, so if something down the road needs a hook or some buildup now, I can do it. If the players ignore it or decide to do something different, so be it...but that's not going to stop me trying to plan ahead, and nor should it, though I get the strong impression some here think otherwise. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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