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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Yeah, that's just bonkers. Of course any adventure will have taken only one path once it is completed! I mean it is not by... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I am not sure it is as plain as you seem to think. So is the argument that railroading takes force to block outcomes? And that framing...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Are they though? :unsure:
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with
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Nothing better than important lore information being missing from the books but available through a designer interview. -
Crimson Longinus reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like.
Excellent point!
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Whilst I would not put it quite so starkly, you're definitely onto something here. I think the "story" that the latter approach produces...
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Sure you can. You just need to layout the different kind of gaming scenarios first, and worry about what kind of labels to assign them...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.No. Because if the GM frames events in such way, that there is always only the one sensible thing to do, it is still a railroad, just...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Fair to whom and how? Is it fair for GM to block action declarations that do not fit to the story they want to tell? Is it fair for the...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human.It also having "baseline" helps the fantastic to stand out. Spock or Worf work better as characters when they are contrasted to the rest...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Well, I just don't think it is that clear cut. What is "willingly"? How the GM frames things has a huge impact on what actions can...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Lord Irongron's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with
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It's a bit of an outlier situation, but without going into excessive detail it is a single online setting, where DMs move between... -
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Since my early 20s I've always considered the idea of evil as an objectively true concept horrifying. Labeling something as evil is... -
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To me this specific part of your very good post isn't even that big a deal, because those 'tags' aren't even used "in-world"... they are...