What is wrong with a little bit of railroading anyway?

This is the internet, we can only into hyperbole. Thre is no "little bit".

>>53274073
The idea is to give the illusion of the choice

>>53274073
If Tolkien could get away with it, anybody can.

>>53274134
This.
It's only railroading if your players know it's railroading.

>>53274122
This
The internet thinks of all things as being exclusively and binary.
> It's 100% Freform, or it's 100% Railroad
> It's 100% High-Fantasy, or it's 100% Realism
> Traps are 100% gay, Traps are 100% not-gay,
etc

>>53274073
But I don't want to save the princess. She's a bitch. I want to do some other quest.

>>53274182
>believing there is something between gay and not gay
good goy

>>53274073
Little bit? Nothing. Just don't execute it poorly, like "you can't go there because period"

>>53274073
It really depends on what kind of game the players agreed to

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>>53274073
Just take the futurama approach

>>53274073
The best railroad is the one with invisible tracks.

>>53274073
>blindfold players
>tell them, they're being seated in the back of a car
>tell them, they choose the course and I drive
>they tell me to veer right, I tell them I do
>they tell me to veer left, I tell them I do
>we aren't in a car
>we're on train
>with no brakes

>>53274182
It's either 100% OverPowered or it's 100% trash. There is no such thing as "pretty good" or "okay"

>>53274182
Mostly Jedi speak in relativisations.