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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

This is why I think it's important to have a definition of railroading that isn't needlessly broad. When "bad thing happens to my...

Easily my favorite mechanic in Cave Story

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EDIT: You know what? Nope.

In my opinion those people's opinions can simply be discounted. It's quite literally the game play loop for D&D. 1) The DM describes...

You seem to be suggesting that if the GM did no pre-plan for every possible contingency, anything they decide turns into "railroading"...

I take exception to the word "whims." A whim suggests that the DM isn't going to bother even thinking the player ideas through to see...

I think that misses the mark a bit. The DM can railroad players via illusionism, and since it generally takes the players a long time...

Given what we have been told about the Vecna product - that Perkins completely stopped working on it when his job changed - it seems...

It's really hard to make a nifty but solvable logic puzzle for players not used to logic puzzles. I really annoyed my sunday group a...

Ever seen pictures of Iran when it was secular? That is how i picture Calimshan, with areas that look more like modern Istanbul...

if said puzzle is the only way to progress the plot, yup. If it gates a side quest or a reward, not really.

I can imagine some narrow definitions of it that wouldn't be just GMing, but I am struggling to find a middle ground for the term that...