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Wait, your position is that a medium amount of railroading is necessary? Oh, I see what you are trying to do. Step 1, 'a medium... -
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"What if" and "can be used" do not equal "is." If your argument is that time skips can be used to railroad, then sure. You can use... -
But that assumption is based on how you personally envision dragons. It's the same logic that is used by Jurassic Park that makes...
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What you seem to be missing is that railroading requires the DM to force the players down the rails. Absent DM force, there is no...
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I don't think its from being a Forever GM; I'm a Forever GM, but as you might gather, I'm as or more attached to the context and events...
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I mean you can make any combat boring, in a host of ways. But what you mean is, do I see combat with no life or death stakes as...
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Your argument seems to be that because something is necessary or even desirable it can't possibly simultaneously result in a loss of...
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But there aren't exceptions to literally everything. It is in fact extremely important to many things that this be true. Some things are...
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but...like... You've literally just said that you CAN lose. And tactics...are what make the difference...? If you can lose and tactics...
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Why can't combats meaningfully affect the story even if you just get captured? Like I genuinely don't understand how or why that is an...
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Or the most thoroughly depressing. But in any case, that'st he point: losing those matters. But again, this is only an issue if the...
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Every single game I have ever played, or heard spoken about, where the game goes out of its way to remind you how dangerously lethal it...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
I LOVE Eberron as a setting and have run a pair of campaigns there before... but I have always known of and have had to try and...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Spell point cost values—what's the rationale?.I can see where you’re coming from but I disagree with your first (and third) points, especially considering a 20th level character, a...
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If I'm playing RuneQuest and lose the character I'm playing, its not the only one I'll ever have. It may be a character I've invested...