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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    Are you really saying that having a NPC is important is railroading? How? Sounds like my game. At least 50% of my game is full of...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    If you find limits to be creative, I can't really say anything to that. If you find it hard to be creative when given limits, that is...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    It will depend on the person: Person one can look at a large number of options and pick one from that huge list. Person two likes only...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    I guess this does depend on the quality of the players a lot.
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    Bogs? Vikings? By the Bristling Beard of Odin it is not so! More then my bad players, equal with my good players. Well, maybe: Ok...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    Players have railroad sense? I've never met one....and I'm a Railroad Tycoon. The idea that the DM must explain everything in detail...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    I've never met players with this extra sensory ability. Though I'm also a Master Manipulator too... I can say plenty of players have...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    Some of us good DMs don't make every encounter an anti character one. Logically, the player would not know every detail of the game and...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    No. This is the fundamental difference right here. You say "only a small number of things from my tiny list can happen". I say...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    There are! The only limits on what can happen are placed by you. Yes? I don't see how prep and details have anything to do with...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    This is a good, big point. For any event/action/encounter you, just you, can only think or imagine of a limited number of outcomes...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    I agree. Well, no. This comes from the strange idea that everyone must be equal in all things always, and the DM is "just a player in...
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    No. The anything ability is not for everyone. Can't really help but have that shine through. Well, they are just my take. I agree.
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    bloodtide replied to the thread GM fiat - an illustration.
    Yes, of course....under the whole "if you choose to be a player of a single character you are accepting massive limitations that take...
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    I've used Keep on the Borderlands and the Lost City countless times. Temple of Elemental evil, Castle Amber, Isle of Dread, Test of the...
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