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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8232866"><p>I am having some trouble following this post Manbearcat. But my point was linear does not equal railroad. An adventure path isn't a railroad, it is a linear adventure. It becomes a railroad if you are not allowed to deviate from it. Plenty of GMs, use adventure path structures as a starting point, possibly an end point, but are fully open to the possibility that the game goes in other directions. This is a very common way to run adventure paths from what I have seen. Again, I really hate using the term degenerate for things like art, media and games. I really can't support its use here, but I think by the definition of that word you are using, this doesn't constitute degenerate play. People playing adventure paths know there is a path but there are also different attitudes from group to group, on how much you can deviate from that path. For most, deviating from it can be fine. Framing starting out as an adventure path and ending up with another kind of mode of play, whether that is story now, sandbox or something situational, is itself a problem I think. That is one of the things that makes RPGs great, there is a freedom to not be constrained by these structures.</p></blockquote><p></p>