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Crimson Longinus reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities with
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I'm getting a weird feeling of déja vu here. Like this thread combines a few recently epic debate threads into one. Is this another... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
15 years ago, i would say - who cares about 30-40 minutes, let's talk it out, decide, agency is king. We played every week at least one...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Necropolitan's post in the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities with Like.
No, because it's an obviously bad idea to write the rules assuming that jerk DMs are the norm. Also the Standford Prison Experiment...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Things you don’t like about DMing with Like.
Reading through a published adventurer. I don’t know why, but I always find that to be such a chore. The worst is reading through keyed...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Things you don’t like about DMing with Like.
The thing I probably most dislike about GMing... ...is all the people online invested in claiming you're doing it wrong, for any value...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TheSword's post in the thread Things you don’t like about DMing with Like.
So I recently saw the discord discussion that I’ve clipped some comments from because I found it very interesting. There was clearly one...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.So regarding whole roleplaying the stats thing. I don't like the rules or the GM telling the player what their character should think...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
5e had BITF, i wonder how this conversation would be going (in regards to DnD at least) if having low stats actually made you pick and...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yup. And some people avoid games with psychological disadvantage mechanisms for the same reason. I think I'm going to present my...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I'll note you've hopped systems and made an assumption I was never making in my posts ("rolled"). I again ask, how intrinsically is a...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
It does have virtues and flaws, however, which can still force players to play their characters in ways they wouldn't, which was my...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Not to be lazy, i just checked ability descriptions in 3.5 PHB and 5e2014 one. 3.5 one is much more defining and goes more in depth...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Blue's post in the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities with Like.
There's been a lot of focus on what a "jerk DM" could do, let's get back to the original question. From the 2014 rules we see that the...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Gradine's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Fiction is filled with examples of "dumb" characters having moments of clarity and insight and coming up with solutions that catch...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.In a group where everyone feels that way it is probably highly unlikely that the GM would actually need to veto anything, as the players...