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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I agree that I don't like how this feels like "the dice decide" here, and there's also a meta-agency problem exposed there in that... -
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Frankly, this sounds terrible to me. The plea and the conflict surrounding it is interesting, but then you just kill it by not allowing... -
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I read that and I am immediately engaged. On the one hand that's pretty persuasive. On the other hand, maybe it's a load of crap. I'm...
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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Oh for sure, I'm always just using the name as a shorthand. My favorite D&D-like is actually 13th Age (no coincidence I invoked it...
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Yes, exactly. Although in general I prefer to have the PCs explain their approach, not just "I use Sense Motive." Like, "I say...
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bsss reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah...I don't know. There's some weird epistemology going on there.
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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Yeah, a form of the "fail forward" approach. I thought about bringing up fail forward ideas with bluff and sense motive problems, but...
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bsss replied to the thread Are there games that track what the PC knows/thinks rather than does?.Yeah, I didn't mean track as in having record of, I meant track as in to follow. Bad word choice. Morrus's Pendragon roll example sounds...
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I think the original point has drifted somewhat. I was proposing (facetiously) that a single failure to pick a lock would remove the...
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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I should have worded that as "clearly this door is an impassable false door", because our point is that it's not like the player...
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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.And I feel like I'm an advocate for your 1st point but not your 2nd, so I think we have at least four takes in this very thread, haha...
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Imagine a "pick lock" ability in which it was assumed that, if you failed to pick the lock, you would no longer desire to open the door... -
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Not so much knowledge but more personality traits—Pendragon has your personality traits go up or down. Each trait is from 1-20 and is...
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bsss posted the thread Are there games that track what the PC knows/thinks rather than does? in *TTRPGs General.My latest post in the "railroading" thread got me thinking, is there a game that captures specifically what the player characters think...
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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.To be fair to D&D and because this is germane to the debate, the bolded part is not how Sense Motive is written. Failing to make the...