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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9760933" data-attributes="member: 23751">That's the difference between linear and railroad in RPGs, though. In a linear game, the players choose to go from A to B to C to D.  They also have the option, if they want, to when they get to B decide that the entire line isn't what they want, and to get off the line and go somewhere else.You chose to get on the T instead of biking or walking.In a railroad game, the player are forced by the DM to go from A to B to C to D, and they have no ability to get off and do something else. All agency in regard to their destination is removed from them by the DM.It would be like your boss telling you that you will be fired if you don't take the T and walk/bike to work.  You can choose to lose your job, just like the railroaded players can quit the game, but if you want to work there, you're going to take the T no matter what else you may have chosen for that morning.</blockquote>