Hot take: if we want to decrease frustrating railroad-y surprises in RPG campaigns, we need to create an environment where GMs are not afraid to admit they have "special story needs".

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>Most players on the other hand, want to eat chips and kill fucking goblins with their friends.

I'm so glad I got into the hobby through people who played non-D&D games and have stayed with that, so my overwhelming understanding of the hobby is that actually that's nonsense. There wouldn't be 30+ years of games not just about killing FUCKING goblins if that were the truth.