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Campbell reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Spire actually assumes a lot more agency for the players in terms of making broad societal changes a potential outcome of their actions... -
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These posts prompted some thoughts. A couple of them also relate to this post: How is it decided (i) what the quest is, and (ii) where...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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It all comes down to three things: player input, GM input, and rules input. These three things interact in different ways in play, and... -
Campbell reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
In game like VtM, whole point is that you are fighting for control. Mechanics represent the Beast. And sometimes Beast wins. Player...
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Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I'm not going to speak of D&D specifically, but I'll say there are games and subsets of games that signing onto them absolutely...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
That’s why I’ve tried to use actual examples from play. The Knight and Squire situation from Spire, my character Clara from The Between...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Because one of the two people involved seems to think it’s a possibility. I’d say the same if a player had an idea that the GM didn’t...
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Campbell replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.No one is arguing that they should. Some people have expressed a preference for games where the internal state of the characters is part...
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Campbell reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
@pemerton has probably harped on the divide between “agency to shape how I think my character’s internality can or can’t be affected” vs...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Love.
I think discounting all of this and instead focusing on the loss of agency in the moment of play as the sole indicator of how this kind...
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Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Harandar was the first zone I got Sojourner on. And I thought some of the NPCs (like...
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OK, first negative thing to say about Midnight: I completely tuned out during Harandar. Could not be less interested in all of their...
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Campbell replied to the thread World of Warcraft: Midnight.One of the things I am really appreciative in the dungeons so far is how healer centric they are. Loads of different healer checks...
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Campbell replied to the thread World of Warcraft: Midnight.I have to say as someone who has flipped back and forth between a Blood Elf Priest and Blood Elf Paladin as mains since Burning Crusade...
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Zul'aman's been the best so far. Eversong was fine, arator's journey was good, Zul'aman has had some strangely impactful sidequests...