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It has been addressed. "GM force" is more than the GM just exercising judgement and doing normal GM duties. No one is denying that what...

Exactly. If @Celebrim would prefer it, think of "railroad" as meaning an on-rail public transit system, such as Chicago's "L" trains...

What @Celebrim is doing is something like this: "What it really means "to punch" someone? It is to apply force with one's hand to...

'railroading' is not primarily used as a metaphor, it's used as terminology, but in the metaphor that represents the terminology, the...

I think you'll find most people DON'T think of it as a quantitative term. It's intrinsic in the metaphor -- a railroad has a direction...

i dont really know much about what the 4e gnome identity was besides 'i'm a monster, Rawr', could you enlighten me?

I mean imagine if the Ranger had a feature called "Monster Hunter". By spending your bonus action, you can deal, say, 1d4 additional...

I enjoyed reading this thread and discovering all of the differing ideas about what constitutes a Ranger. I also found it very...

I mean, I know it's a typo, but the idea we'll still be edition warring 889 years from now fills me with hope and dread simultaneously.

Seriously! There's a lot I really like about Revised Ranger, and wish got folded back into later attempts! Particularly the combat...

Made worse by the fact that nothing is supernatural about the Warlord. Healing in D&D does not require magic or supernatural abilities...

I can't speak to 3.5E, but that's what particularly gets me as far as 5E goes. I'd say there were a few times where we were really close...

gnomes IMO ought to be a 'nature spirits' archetype but Wizards likes the tinkerer ideas too much for them to really play into that.

same, and then they built the '24 version around it and a part of my soul died on seeing that design choice.

if i might offer a middle position, the ranger is a collection of several mostly interrelated concepts but with a few that some people...