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Originally Posted by ShannonA
That's not what I said. I said the *railroading* was in Malory. It's pretty much a definition of the Malorian genre. And I think that in the case what's acceptable in the book *is* acceptable in the game, because Pendragon is pretty much the ideal for genre-defining game design. It tries to be Malory and it succeeds magnificently.
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This statement is very puzzling to me. Railroading, the way I've always seen the term used is something that very specifically refers to a way of running a role-playing game. A story, a book or a film cannot be railroaded, since it doesn't involve a gm to railroad and players to be railroaded. Saying that Malory "railroads" is completely meaningless, since Malory wrote a story and not a game. Or are you using the word in a sense that I'm previously unaware of?