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  1. 2019-05-13, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #918
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    Default Re: The Nature of Railroading

    Quote Originally Posted by Segev View Post
    By definition, they're faint if extant at all.
    That's my position -- that there aren't rails.

    Someone said that there are rails even in that type of campaign and style of GMing*, and I was asking, "where are these rails you keep insisting are there"?


    *where the choice space is broad and deep, and the PCs' actions set the present and define their own future choice space via interaction with the setting and other characters.
    Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2019-05-13 at 04:29 PM.
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