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CreamCloud0 reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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For me it's pretty simple. If there are predetermined scenes, plotlines, story beats, encounters, or solutions to problems, that the PCs... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to PhD20's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Me: "I want to go over there." GM: (either explicitly or implicitly) "You can't." And a general awareness that every path leads... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The problem is that it's quite possible to use a term without having any idea what you mean by the term much less having a conscious...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think those that conflate linear and railroad aren’t typically consistent with their meaning.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
There might be nuance (there's always nuance). But this isn't that nuance. Look, this is probably a silly thing for us to argue about...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
A few people in a thread on teh interwebs isn't meeting that definition of language change. Railroading has a long history of use in...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think that's a mistake. We have a great word for linear designs - linear. Railroading is something else, even just by the definition...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to payn's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yes, they are using it as a "less good way to play that some people like for some reason" and ignoring folks who find it objectionable...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to payn's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Which I do. In fact ive never heard anyone use railroad in any other way but pejoratively. You cant say its a simple playstye when...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to payn's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Means that linear game is not a railroad.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
IMO. One cannot have player agency at all without the possibility of a choice now to restrict choices in a later moment. If it’s...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The soul is not held in the feywild. It is elsewhere (they have since discerned where via Contct Other Plane). The Void situation is...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, they knew ahead of time that the cabin lead to the Feywild, and they voluntarily drew the cards from the...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I have a hard time reading people say, “They wanted to do Quest X and you wouldn’t let them, therefore railroading” If the players...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
No. Unless the player MUST investigate the forks, it's not a railroad. The players had other options for getting off of the plane...