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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7403466" data-attributes="member: 29398">You mean your definition of what constitutes a railroad?&nbsp; Yep, I read it; and I disagree with it.And to your credit, you have, at great length.I don't agree with a lot of what you post but I commend you for the effort you put in to posting it.And this is where your definition of &quot;railroad&quot; differs from the usual norm, I think.Oh yes it does, believe me; but in the more usual lead-'em-by-the-nose sense rather than your particular definition. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If by &quot;puzzle-solving&quot; you mean mysteries and unrevealed plots the individual bits of which can take a long time to piece together, then yes; those are a big feature in my games on those occasions when I can pull them off.&nbsp; But even then my plots can't hold a candle to that chart from your OA game you posted a few days ago.Well, it has kind of become just this disagreement. And it's this too.&nbsp; Railroading really wouldn't enter much into the topic at all were it not for your redefinition of the word to include pre-authored setting content influencing action resolution.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7403466, member: 29398"] You mean your definition of what constitutes a railroad? Yep, I read it; and I disagree with it. And to your credit, you have, at great length. I don't agree with a lot of what you post but I commend you for the effort you put in to posting it. And this is where your definition of "railroad" differs from the usual norm, I think. Oh yes it does, believe me; but in the more usual lead-'em-by-the-nose sense rather than your particular definition. :) If by "puzzle-solving" you mean mysteries and unrevealed plots the individual bits of which can take a long time to piece together, then yes; those are a big feature in my games on those occasions when I can pull them off. But even then my plots can't hold a candle to that chart from your OA game you posted a few days ago. Well, it has kind of become just this disagreement. And it's this too. Railroading really wouldn't enter much into the topic at all were it not for your redefinition of the word to include pre-authored setting content influencing action resolution. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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