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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6246477" data-attributes="member: 17106">I can see why you would say that, but I don't think that's sufficient for a definition of railroading. I think railroading implies a metagame restriction of choice by the DM.For example, if a player wants to have his armor smithed by a dwarf and he is in an elven tree city, and the DM tells him he cannot find what he wants and has to find another smith or go somewhere else, that is not railroading. Conversely, if the PC is in a cosmopolitan city and wants a dwarven smith, but the DM has prepared a special human smith and tells the player all the dwarves refuse to talk to him, that might be railroading.If the bounds of the players' choices are clear in the game world, even if those bounds are established by the DM (hint: they are), I don't think that's railroading.</blockquote>