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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2963550" data-attributes="member: 3854">Mind bogglingI wonder if/how many of the respondants here have not read the other thread.How many people read:“A removal of player choice which the player finds objectionable or inappropriate.”As“A removal of player choice which a reasonable player finds objectionable or inappropriate.”The whole reason I had to just get out of that original discussion was because some folks were/are saying that any restriction of choice, no matter how normal, appropriate, expected, logical, reasonable, caused by the PCs’ actions, etc. is railroading. Had I not read those comments myself, I would never have believed that someone meant that.By this definition, being targeted with a hold person is railroading; being confronted by normal constabulary for burning and killing through the city is railroading; telling the paladin he needs to atone for torturing and raping captives is railroading; being told, “no warforged ninjas in this campaign” is railroading – all merely because a player finds it personally objectionable or inappropriate (without consideration of the player’s reasonableness).I find this concept to be so far removed from sensible that I suspect many of the folks voting for it as a definition of railroading are misunderstanding the true vagary of it. Usually I like polls on ENWorld, but my mind just cannot conceive of this definition being acceptable.Quasqueton</blockquote>

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