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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9736414" data-attributes="member: 23751">Adventure paths cannot inherently be railroads, because they do not inherently restrain player action and force them down a very specific path that the DM wants them on.The adventure path might show us that the Duke is behind the current plot and he has the item we are looking for, but we don't have to go there and get it.  Not then, or perhaps not ever.Rather than risking the Duke's wrath and guards, we could decide to divert to a city a few weeks away and get an item that isn't quite as good, but should be enough of an aid in our estimation.  Then we bypass the duke and continue on.  Or maybe halfway through the adventure path it gets old and boring, so we decide to go investigate somewhere else and leave the adventure path up to NPCs to figure out.A DM can on his own force us down rails in an adventure path, but there's no inherent railroad in a linear module, because without the additional DM force, you can hope off the path and go somewhere else.</blockquote>