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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8039096" data-attributes="member: 1465">I would call it railroading when the DM makes every but one strategic choice feasible. For example, your task is to infiltrate a castle:DM: &quot;You see the guards have left the main door slightly open. What do you do?&quot;. Players: &quot;It seems too easy, I don't trust it. Let's try to find a window.DM: &quot;The castle has no windows, it's airtight&quot;.Players: &quot;Let's climb the wall&quot;.DM: &quot;You can't, it's too high, covered in oil and has spikes everywhere&quot;.Players: &quot;We cut a whole through the wall&quot;.DM: &quot;Nope, it's adamantine&quot;.Players: &quot;We cast Passwall&quot;.DM: &quot;The whole hill is under an antimagic field&quot;.Players: &quot;We catapult ourselves directly into the inner yard&quot;.DM: &quot;There is no yard, it's a hemispherical castle, you slide back to the outside&quot;.Players: &quot;Sigh... ok, we go through the main door which the guards left slightly open&quot;.DM: &quot;Good puppies! Now, you enter the main hall, there are three doors: a white door closed, a black door open, a red door semi-open. What do you do?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8039096, member: 1465"] I would call it railroading when the DM makes every but one strategic choice feasible. For example, your task is to infiltrate a castle: DM: "You see the guards have left the main door slightly open. What do you do?". Players: "It seems too easy, I don't trust it. Let's try to find a window. DM: "The castle has no windows, it's airtight". Players: "Let's climb the wall". DM: "You can't, it's too high, covered in oil and has spikes everywhere". Players: "We cut a whole through the wall". DM: "Nope, it's adamantine". Players: "We cast [I]Passwall[/I]". DM: "The whole hill is under an antimagic field". Players: "We catapult ourselves directly into the inner yard". DM: "There is no yard, it's a hemispherical castle, you slide back to the outside". Players: "Sigh... ok, we go through the main door which the guards left slightly open". DM: "Good puppies! Now, you enter the main hall, there are three doors: a white door closed, a black door open, a red door semi-open. What do you do?" [/QUOTE]

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