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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Though what also is not railroading: the campaign having a premise. If the GM says "I'd like to run the Tomb of Horrors, you guys wanna... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to stonehead's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with
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I think the point was that no one used these rules, so being able to ignore them is meaningless. I've never played in a game in which... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.That the characters end up where the GM "wanted" them is no indication that any railroading happened. A good GM playing with people they...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.It is pretty common here. People try to obfuscate the weakness of their argument by overtly verbose and complex expression of it...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
I don't understand half of what you said, and before you say something about my capacity for understanding, I architect...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Gradine's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with
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It's nice to hear Odysseus's West Marches game is still going strong after all these centuries -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
resistances work great. maybe also save proficiencies. IE: favored enemy undead; proficiency in CON saves resistance to Necrotic damage...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Disagreement with you isn't a fallacy. He substituted "I want" for "I want." It wasn't about winning.
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That's not surprising. @EzekielRaiden is using the railroading as it is commonly used in RPGs, and @pemerton and @Celebrim have...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Haha.
When I finally have to get concise, I often can. It's just a matter of getting my brain in the right gear. 99% of the time, logorrheic...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
that was also the problem with the ranger, either you fail the challenge if there is no ranger(mostly) or you just auto succeed with...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
Excuse me? What "robust" exploration rules do you think 5.0 had? All I saw was weak tea that could nonetheless be ignored if you had a...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class. with Like.
Yup. In the official game rangers are a clumsy patch on WotC's lack of robust exploration rules. Fix that problem, and the class has a...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Hit Points are a great mechanic.Using exhaustion track or something similar to abstract this seems fine to me, but it going away by normal healing (and thus by long...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Hit Points are a great mechanic.Yeah, I've been thinking the same. It doesn't even need to be some super grievous permanent injury, but something that cannot be...