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Or maybe a big part of GMing is managing your own power to railroad. Or at least, that's one of the hats you are wearing. So everyone...
Sep 22, 2025
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I mean, OK, I'll bite. What do you mean by that? I can think of some specific ways of talking like metagame direction, "Are you sure...
Sep 22, 2025
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GMing is about a lot of things, but I agree with you that a lot of the things that are most important about GMing are the things that...
Sep 22, 2025
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Brevity is great. Pithiness is always something you should strive for. I'm not attacked at all if you say the obvious thing that "Your...
Sep 22, 2025
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No, because I can give you counter examples. If you have a consistent procedure of play that isn't influenced by the GMs judgment where...
Sep 22, 2025
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They were at the point in the story where they were running out of food so as in the essay above, the packs were getting lighter. They...
Sep 22, 2025
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Not by you. You've repeatedly failed to address any of the substance of the post you are supposedly responding to. Ok let's jump back...
Sep 22, 2025
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Sam and Bill the Pony can be hired cheaply - just 2 s.p. per day. Then if the goblins ever do kill and eat Bill the Pony (or Sam!) it's...
Sep 22, 2025
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This . . . looks like a typo. But it's probably not. . . . is a wagon. Fortunately for GMs, wagons don't roll everywhere!
Sep 22, 2025
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Screw that. (Turns to DM) What’s the cost for a horse?
Sep 22, 2025
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The 15 minute per mile pace of road marching is hard to keep for more than a couple hours. 20 minutes is more the average for normal...
Sep 22, 2025
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Yes, pretty much exactly. And in Celebrim's theory this is railroading via the "Small World" technique where the available choices...
Sep 22, 2025
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Exactly. If @Celebrim would prefer it, think of "railroad" as meaning an on-rail public transit system, such as Chicago's "L" trains...
Sep 22, 2025
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No, so that is mistaking the question here. MtG is definitely moving towards being more 'railroady' but not because it has strict...
Sep 22, 2025
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So many people just don't want to engage with what I'm saying. Arguments by analogy are almost always wrong. I used to make them all...
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