Recent content by Rdm

but they can lose. When Losing is defined as allowing whatever they would have been stopping to occur.

It’s true. They can’t ‘win’ a scenario they purposely choose not to engage with.

The players chose to play in that adventure.

“It all goes back to what I stated earlier. There is no professional published AP from Pathfinder or D&D that can't be fun. And not in a sarcastic way, but fun. It all depends on the DM, the players and the chemistry between everyone. That's it. The material is professionally written, and it...

It’s “extreme“ to claim that any published AP can be fun? Seriously?

Uhhuh. There is no responsibility on players to, basically, buy into the premise of the game being played?

The is a quite big difference between no accepting the basic premise of a module and being ‘completely on rails’. Most modules have plenty of room for creativity. That not everything imaginable works doesn’t mean nothing does.

Thing is, if you say you are running a module it is kinda explicit. You are trying to, you know, run the module. Kind of self implying.

Does every clever idea have to work or be appropriate for you to ‘have an influence’?

Eh. Most of the longer AP I’ve gone through have sort of ‘mini sections’ with plenty of accomplishments possible.

I've rarely found an AP whose story I couldn’t personalize enough to make it ‘about my player’ to a good degree.

So, just out of curiosity, from a role playing perspective, what would you consider an example of using your intelligence to intimidate?

theoretically believing they existed and seeing one walk down your street are differing matters. But you are wedded to this rather strange insistence that people back then were MORE accepting than people now, somehow.

Yes, there are players whose only interest in a race is it’s oddity.

You are seriously putting forth that. Ok. Sure.