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Originally Posted by Oliveira
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?
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In Malory, knights often get dragged into plots whether they like it or not. They often fatalistically accept this. In fact fatalism and inevitability are a large part of the story as Malory tells it.
When you translate those ideals into an RPG, running the same types of stories as Malory told, RPGers would call it railroading.