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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8340001" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is why, instead of debating about whether or not games are railroads, it seems more helpful to talk about what sorts of authority the GM exercises over the shared fiction in different sorts of games.If - for the reasons you've said - we want the GM to be the one who mostly decides what happens next, and/or we want player decision-making to be confined mostly to declaring actions in combat, then lets be up front about that, and talk about how to do it well.Again, this doesn't seem like something I would enjoy but is a type of play I've witnessed, and been a player in, back when I played in a club. It makes sense to talk about how it works. And why, for instance, do we still have die rolls in combat? (I think the answer is something to do with setting up tension and releasing it - it's a pacing device, not really a resolution device, in the sort of play you're describing.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8340001, member: 42582"] This is why, instead of debating about whether or not games are railroads, it seems more helpful to talk about what sorts of authority the GM exercises over the shared fiction in different sorts of games. If - for the reasons you've said - we [i]want[/i] the GM to be the one who mostly decides what happens next, and/or we [i]want[/i] player decision-making to be confined mostly to declaring actions in combat, then lets be up front about that, and talk about how to do it well. Again, this doesn't seem like something I would enjoy but is a type of play I've witnessed, and been a player in, back when I played in a club. It makes sense to talk about how it works. And why, for instance, do we still have die rolls in combat? (I think the answer is something to do with setting up tension and releasing it - it's a pacing device, not really a resolution device, in the sort of play you're describing.) [/QUOTE]

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