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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3277020" data-attributes="member: 10177">All I know is I won't RR anymore than I have to.Take the adventure paths in Dungeon. If you sit your group down at a table with the intention to play the whole AP you are railroading. Which, even though I like them, I will never sit down intending to run the whole thing.I take it as a given that the players can go off on a tangent at any time. SO I do not obligate myself to stick to a strict path. I go where my players want to go. If I can add things to entice them back to the direction I would like to go, great. If not, great. As long as we are having fun we are attaining my most important goal and I'll save whatever we didn't do for another time. Even though I have yet to return to anything I didn't use, because something better always seems to come along.This means I have left many a module only partially run. But I am OK with that. The module still led us to having a great time, which is all that ultimately matters.I enjoy the challenges of trying not to railroad, but I will do it when I believe it will result in a great experience. That is a rare occurance, though. So most of the time we meander through the campaign world, paying attention to whatever catches my players attention.The only time I really do any railroading is when I start a campaign. This is because it is usually new players who need to learn how to play together. So until they get to that point they follow my plot. After that, we go where the wind blows us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 3277020, member: 10177"] All I know is I won't RR anymore than I have to. Take the adventure paths in Dungeon. If you sit your group down at a table with the intention to play the whole AP you are railroading. Which, even though I like them, I will never sit down intending to run the whole thing. I take it as a given that the players can go off on a tangent at any time. SO I do not obligate myself to stick to a strict path. I go where my players want to go. If I can add things to entice them back to the direction I would like to go, great. If not, great. As long as we are having fun we are attaining my most important goal and I'll save whatever we didn't do for another time. Even though I have yet to return to anything I didn't use, because something better always seems to come along. This means I have left many a module only partially run. But I am OK with that. The module still led us to having a great time, which is all that ultimately matters. I enjoy the challenges of trying not to railroad, but I will do it when I believe it will result in a great experience. That is a rare occurance, though. So most of the time we meander through the campaign world, paying attention to whatever catches my players attention. The only time I really do any railroading is when I start a campaign. This is because it is usually new players who need to learn how to play together. So until they get to that point they follow my plot. After that, we go where the wind blows us. [/QUOTE]

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