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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8038802" data-attributes="member: 6906155">It's also something players are aware of and accept as part of "suspension of disbelief".Really, it's the same as encountering six different paths through the forest. Without any clues to indicate what route to take (and realistically there seldom are) it's no different to rolling a d6 to see what you encounter.And in real life we never get to see if our choices might have led to a different outcome, or if we would have ended up in the same place no matter what.The player choice comes in when the decide how to deal with the encounter. If the DM only lets the encounter play out exactly as they have written down (and I have come across things like this in published adventures) then there might be a railroad problem.</blockquote>