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** The game is on a old-fashioned video game cartridge with limited data resources. If a player strays off into a random open area that isn't coded properly (due to cartridge restrictions and/or technical limitations), the game might [[GameBreakingBug freeze/crash]].
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** Eric has been railroaded by other Game Master and thinks it's the way Tabletop Role-Playing Game are suppose to work.
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** Eric has been railroaded by other Game Master and thinks it's the way Tabletop Role-Playing Game are suppose supposed to work.
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** Eric throws his players in a QuicksandBox and refuses to give any suggestions on what they should do.
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* '''Downplayed''': Eric, through his role as DM, heavily implies that a certain path is the best one to take. He hopes that the players don't go OffTheRails too much.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Eric, through his role as DM, heavily implies that a certain path is the best one to take. He hopes that the players don't go OffTheRails toomuch.much.
** Eric gives the players multiple paths, but most of them are [[BeefGate guarded by incredibly powerful enemies]].
** Eric, through his role as DM, heavily implies that a certain path is the best one to take. He hopes that the players don't go OffTheRails too
** Eric gives the players multiple paths, but most of them are [[BeefGate guarded by incredibly powerful enemies]].
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** A [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] and utterly {{Sadist}}ic alien lifeform has captured a group of people and is playing KillerGameMaster with their lives, taking particular psychotic delight in railroading his hapless 'players' away from escape or even plain common sense and right into dangerous situations and traps.
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** A [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] and utterly {{Sadist}}ic alien lifeform has captured a group of people and is playing KillerGameMaster with their lives, taking particular psychotic delight in railroading his hapless 'players' away from escape or even plain common sense and [[ControllableHelplessness right into dangerous situations and traps. traps.]]
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** A [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] and utterly {{Sadist}}ic alien lifeform has captured a group of people and is playing KillerGameMaster with their lives, taking particular psychotic delight in railroading his hapless 'players' away from escape or even plain common sense and right into dangerous situations and traps.
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* '''Invoked''':
-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us."\\
'''Eric''': "I'm not."\\
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."
-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us."\\
'''Eric''': "I'm not."\\
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."
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* '''Invoked''':
-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us."\\
'''Eric''': "I'm not."\\
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."'''Invoked''': The players ask for some guidance when they get bored just running around the kingdom.
-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us."\\
'''Eric''': "I'm not."\\
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."
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** After a particularly blatant instance of railroading, [[ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG one of the players mutters "Choo-choo!"]]
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** After a particularly blatant instance of railroading, [[ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG [[Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG one of the players mutters "Choo-choo!"]]
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Eric switches between this and sandbox mode much to the other player's chagrin.
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** Eric plans on having a big reveal at the end that would have fully justified the railroading, such as the world they are adventuring in is actually a creation and anything off the "main path" doesn't actually exist.
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** After a particularly blatant instance of railroading, [[ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG one of the players mutters "Choo-choo!"]]
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** After a particularly blatant instance of railroading, [[ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG one of the players mutters "Choo-choo!"]]
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** After a particularly blatant instance of railroading, [[ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG one of the players mutters "Choo-choo!"]]
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???Eric, through his role as DM, heavily implies that a certain path is the best one to take. He hopes that the players don't go OffTheRails too much.
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* '''Justified''': Eric has been railroaded by other Game Master and thinks it's the way Tabletop Role-Playing Game are suppose to work.
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* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
** Eric has been railroaded by other Game Master and thinks it's the way Tabletop Role-Playing Game are suppose to work.
* '''Justified''':
** Eric has been railroaded by other Game Master and thinks it's the way Tabletop Role-Playing Game are suppose to work.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The players are all too aware of Eric's insistence on keeping things going in exactly the direction he wants them to. They quickly get bored of having practically no control of their own adventure, and abandon him and his games.
* '''Reconstructed''': But they come back when they realize they don't like games with no plot run by other guys, or when they figure out that he's the best GM they've got.
* '''Reconstructed''': But they come back when they realize they don't like games with no plot run by other guys, or when they figure out that he's the best GM they've got.
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* '''Lampshaded''': An NPC tells the characters, "It's not like you've ever had a choice in the matter."
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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
** An NPC tells the characters, "It's not like you've ever had a choice in the matter."
** An NPC tells the characters, "It's not like you've ever had a choice in the matter."
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* '''Invoked''': "Eric's railroading us." "I'm not." "Are too."
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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us." "\\
'''Eric''': "I'm not." "Are too.""\\
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."
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-->'''Bob''': "Eric's railroading us.
'''Eric''': "I'm not.
'''Bob''': "Yes, you are."
* '''Exploited''': ???
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* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Played For Laughs''': ???'''Deconstructed''': The players are all too aware of Eric's insistence on keeping things going in exactly the direction he wants them to. They quickly get bored of having practically no control of their own adventure, and abandon him and his games.
* '''Reconstructed''': But they come back when they realize they don't like games with no plot run by other guys, or when they figure out that he's the best GM they've got.
* '''Reconstructed''': But they come back when they realize they don't like games with no plot run by other guys, or when they figure out that he's the best GM they've got.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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** One player starts making train noises under his breath. The GM glares at him.
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* '''Defied''': "I'm not railroading you guys."
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* '''Defied''': "I'm not railroading you guys."The players go OffTheRails.
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': ???
* '''PlayedForDrama''': The heroes have been spending the whole campaign unknowingly doing the bidding of the BigBad, who deliberately set it up so that they have to go in the direction he planned if they wish to go anywhere at all.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': The heroes have been spending the whole campaign unknowingly doing the bidding of the BigBad, who deliberately set it up so that they have to go in the direction he planned if they wish to go anywhere at all.
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': '''Played For Laughs''': ???
*'''PlayedForDrama''': '''Played For Drama''': The heroes have been spending the whole campaign unknowingly doing the bidding of the BigBad, who deliberately set it up so that they have to go in the direction he planned if they wish to go anywhere at all.
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