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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.My issue with the fork stealing is that is is weirdly specific and feels contrived. It weakens the player buy in into the fiction of the... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Right, exactly. And as GM I like to have such scaffolding. As a GM I already decide a ton of things, and such structures are one way to...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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I think you're misreading my post. I'm saying the rules exist to check "narrative contrivance". Transferring authority to the setting... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Let me quibble a bit (although I actually more agree with you on this topic.) Games with detailed, exception-based rules (I'm thinking...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Because it's not binary, and I think you know that. It's a spectrum. The rules are just as important for play as roleplay, but the exact...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yes, but perhaps potentially very minor. A lot of railroading for me depends on the why of what you are doing. To me the real issue...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I really think that wasn't their intent, though. They simply assumed that the kinds of changes they were proposing were a natural...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
To me, the point of playing RPGs (as opposed to running them or worldbuilding) is to explore an imaginary world through the specific...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Mine as well. I can even name the technique being used under my scheme: obdurium walls. It's when in order to confine the players to...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Yeah. And that is the same point I've made several times to people who endlessly moan in 5e threads, basically about 5e not being 4e...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to soviet's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Why do people who want to stick with the old edition need to buy the new edition? What's the point of a new edition other than to do new...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think that as long as we can suss out what folks mean when they use a term, even if we personally disagree with that definition, we...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think that in @Celebrim 's example there's an inherent acceptance that "the premise of the game means that we need to accept bounties...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I mean of course any design choice will exclude some potential players. If I open a seafood restaurant I will be excluding customers...
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Crimson Longinus 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...