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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5179759" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wow, "infuriated"?  Dude, it's a message board.  This all sprouted from the idea that a game has no script at all.  Swimming a bit upthread, that's The Shaman I believe who claims that there is no script at all.Amerigov then goes on to do a bit of comedy that a game must have a script in order to be playable, which I interpreted to mean that any game in which you might consider having a script = complete railroad in which the DM is calling "cut" and forcing players to repeat scenes.I continued in what I thought was a kinda funny vein replying to this idea that no game should possibly have anything resembling a script (remember that whole "there is no script thing?).  And yup, I saw it as yet another smug, snide commentary on the idea that if your game is not some wide open sandbox, it's nothing but a lockstep railroad, which pretty much completely ignores the middle road that I think most of us follow.The middle road being that adventures share a number of similarities to scripts - although not a 1:1 correlation, thus the definition of the word analogy and aanalogous.  Frankly I'm at a complete loss as to how you could write an adventure that does not share a number of points of commonality to a script.  But, hey, apparently I'm frothing at the mouth and have gone completely off the deep end.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  Better hold me back... I guess I'm coming out swinging....  :/</blockquote>

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