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interesting, not a term i believe i've come across before. my own definition of railroading boils down to 'it's when the GM repeatedly... -
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Railroading is admittedly hard to define, but I know it when I see it. I well remember when I ran modules for the Living Arcanis...
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I think there is a very compelling argument that a game becomes a railroad when the GMs track laying and railroading techniques are so...
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This is called a "Rowboat World". You can go anywhere but you have to put in all the effort and the vast majority of what you find will...
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Audiomancer reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
I really should post this in the, "what I thought a thread title said" but, this is what I thought the thread title was: Maybe people...
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I'm a big fan of sandbox play, but I sometimes make pretty linear adventures. Usually they are one-shots, but the one I'm currently...
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I think a lot of arguments arise because actual play is much less binary than this definition implies. Agency can be manipulated...
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To me, "linear adventure" seems like a description of the way a pre-written scenario is presented: as a sequence of "scenes" or "events"...
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Audiomancer reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Ben Riggs talks to Richard Baker. Phandelver in 2018 alone sold 300k copies. with Like.
That is true of any adventure someone claims is the best thing ever. There is not correct answer to that - it is, like D&D, very...
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Audiomancer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Ben Riggs talks to Richard Baker. Phandelver in 2018 alone sold 300k copies. with Like.
I would say Buried in the Bahamas for Pirate Borg is better, but they're very similar in structure (constrained opening followed by...
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Audiomancer reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Ben Riggs talks to Richard Baker. Phandelver in 2018 alone sold 300k copies. with Like.
The core of the module's "story" isn't anything special, really. The beauty is in how it presents a very quickly "open" set of...
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I think i could probably define railroad, but no way im doing what you want me to do, instead im heading put on my own quest. -
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One alternative I've used with some success is to have the player author the inciting incident for their PC. Details here: Repost- first...
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A big thread for everything Railroading. So far there is no single true definition of “Railroading” out there, which is probably the...