Latest activity

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 &...

"AI integration has been a clear success"

I think you can railroad players into dealing with what you want them to deal with when they’d rather not, though. Because as noted...

Sure, be wistful, but then get out and actively do something if it’s really a problem because ultimately my point is this is a broader...

I would say the same to you. It doesn't have to mean literally prevented from playing. It can also be prevented from playing how you...

George Lucas wrote Star Wars. The characters have no choice but to go along the rails he already laid. Is Star Wars a railroad? I...

Quoted for cosmic truth and justice!

Depends. DDB is excellent - they didn't create it, but they've developed it very well since acquiring it, between adding the extremely...

The first time a bridge or a building or something falls down and it turns out that the design firm leaned heavily on AI, we are going...

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...

I can’t abide the hope that D&D becomes unpopular or exclusive again because then “we’ll get it back”. It sounds like the worst kind of...

By whom?

railroading to me when the GM only has a single goal for the situation/campaign that they are going to allow, one that they will enforce...

There's a video series called Awful Squad where a bunch of people from old timey Polygon played Player Unknown's Battlegrounds... badly...