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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with
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Wait wait wait wait wait. So, now it's not, even remotely, about any form of agency at all--even though that's pretty consistently what... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
"Railroading is the word for when a GM, through coercion or manipulation, enforces an inflexibly linear experience as part of GMing...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to gban007's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
If we follow the more colloquial (?) Use of term railroaded in general language, then applied to TTRPG it is where the players are...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.those are not railroads, they're linear, the adventures where the players turn off their brain and just follow the signposts are linear...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Then let me ask simply: Why does "railroading", this single specific word, NEED to be both positive and negative? Why can't it just be...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
If it is a singular isolated case, perhaps it might not be railroading--but I see it as reflecting a general pattern of pretense. The GM...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Some people like linear adventures. Not all linear adventures are railroads. The first group of people would be people who want a...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
It does not "very rarely" do that. At all. Because the evidence for that is already present in general. M:tG is not an RPG of any...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
And a lot of people would, but "Hunter of supernatural creatures who themselves have supernatural abilities triggered by alchemy" could...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
3e had both ranged and two weapon as a Ranger focus. "Combat Style (Ex): At 2nd level, a ranger must select one of two combat styles to...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
In 2024 it does: "Thanks to their connection with nature, Rangers can also cast spells that harness primal powers of the wilderness. A...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
Aragorn is definitely doing magic in LoTR. LoTR has very subtle magic. Very rarely is it flashy or anything like the D&D idea of...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
I think it is wrong to conflate being magical and casting spells outside the D&D construct. Spells are to a large degree the mechanic...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
I'm not sure "railroading" applies outside of the context of a game where one participant - the GM - plays an important role in choosing...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class..no, there are some classes that require magic for their concept, there are some classes that don't need magic for their concept, but...