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Message: <blockquote data-quote="happyelf" data-source="post: 2966636" data-attributes="member: 40394">That's the only measure that exists in any event. The opinons and preferences of the players and the GM.What else is there? Can you dip some conceptual litmus paper into the game? Do the 3.5 rules come wiht a chart to balance the prevalence of GM fiat against the party's average level? Of course not. That's the issue. Preference. Everything beyond that is a just a matter of the group articulating it's preferences and goals, and again, that is not a process that can be codified or placed into an 'objective' framework. That's a matter of dialogue, discussion, even experimentation. I think there's a lot of good stuff that can be said about such issues, but it doesn't change the fact that the blanket term 'railroading' refers to a problem defined by preference.Everybody has a different story about railroading, and most of them have merit, despite how much they often seem to differ. The solution then is not to say that some stories are railroading, and some are not, but rather to recognise that railroading is relative to preference.</blockquote>