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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9856947" data-attributes="member: 87792">No. It is a film. It fails utterly to be an RPG because you are passive observers and the game element is entirely absent.To me the railroad can bite in the first story/module if it is heavy handed, but it normally bites in the second story/module.To use a Star Wars as RPG example assuming that Obi Wan was an NPC and Han, Luke, and Leia, and maybe Chewie and Artoo were PCs I can picture of fifty groups setting out wth those PCs thirty-ish ending up with their interpretations of the characters resembling the film (also in about thirty someone finds the tracking device; in about half of these they play nice and go to Yavin IV anyway to let the DM do their thing).On the other hand if you start your fifty groups at the start of Star Wars with basic character notes expecting more than about five of them to be in place for Empire Strikes Back is ... optimistic</blockquote>