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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2540813" data-attributes="member: 22779">Actually, I really liked the campaign setting.  Liked it enough to buy all 16 modules, a hardback book and a rather large number of the books.It still doesn't change the fact that its a railroad.Take a look at DL 1.  What happens if the party decides to leg it out into the wilderness?  They run into repeated draconian patrols until, eventually, they die.  Sure, it's not an automatic death in that you die in the first wave.  But, eventually, after the umpteenth wave, you will die.  I'm still not sure how you can argue that this isn't railroading.  If the party in any of the DL modules decides to break out of the mold, they die.  They die a death of a thousand cuts as random encounters every couple of hours nickle and dime them to death.I'm sorry, but again, an epic STORY is automatically a railroad.  If the OUTCOME of the story is known before the dice are even rolled, it's a railroad.  No matter what the PC's did, they had to follow the story, OR THEY DIED.  I'm sorry, but how is endless waves of draconians NOT an automatic death for the PC's?</blockquote>