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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8340261" data-attributes="member: 42582">I took it as a premise in this thread that railroading doesn't have to be degenerate. Otherwise the whole topic is oxymoronic.So I was assuming that &quot;railroading&quot; means something like at every moment of play the GM decides what happens next, and the players main function is to learn what that is and perhaps provide a bit of embellishment via their action declarations.I wouldn't normally think of this sort of scene-framing or pacing management as railroading, unless of course there is some sort of disagreement between players and GM over what matters and what doesn't.Central to railroading, I think - and as seems to be the main focus in this thread - is not who decides pacing and framing, but who decides what happens after a player declares an action for his/her PC. In railroading play, that is the GM. Whether that is degenerate or not turns on the further question of who wants what out of play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8340261, member: 42582"] I took it as a premise in this thread that [I]railroading [/I]doesn't have to be degenerate. Otherwise the whole topic is oxymoronic. So I was assuming that "railroading" means something like [I]at every moment of play the GM decides what happens next, and the players main function is to learn what that is and perhaps provide a bit of embellishment via their action declarations[/I]. I wouldn't normally think of this sort of scene-framing or pacing management as [I]railroading[/I], unless of course there is some sort of disagreement between players and GM over what matters and what doesn't. Central to railroading, I think - and as seems to be the main focus in this thread - is not who decides pacing and framing, but [i]who decides what happens after a player declares an action for his/her PC[/i]. In railroading play, that is the GM. Whether that is [i]degenerate[/i] or not turns on the further question of who wants what out of play. [/QUOTE]

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