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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 3266845" data-attributes="member: 6661">Railroading modules are ones where certain events the player characters are involved in are scripted to end a certain way and there's nothing they can do about it.The characters are on a "railroad" and they aren't even given the pretense of free will. The original ending of A-3: Aerie of the Slave Lords (I think that's the title) has the characters boxed in by multiple Walls of Force and gassed with a "plot gas" against which there are no saves, no resistances, and no immunities. This railroads the characters straight into the beginning of A-4.In Living Greyhawk, this is sometimes known as "death by Boxed Text", because the DM is supposed to read the boxed text and player characters can take no action to prevent anything that happens during the boxed text. Even if common sense would say otherwise. LG has gotten a lot better about not putting this kind of thing into boxed text, but there were NPCs who were doomed because of it in some of the early modules.</blockquote>