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Underneath it all, I think the bolded is what makes me dislike the concept in principle. For me, I generally want player knowledge and... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Well, there is a difference: the player was still a watchmaker god when he created the character. You can argue how much he "controls"... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I've got a player who responds extremely strongly to mind control effects. Even he thinks he overreacts some times, but its still 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.
Then it still comes back to "desire" being a bad term. Once you set up that set of heuristics, playing them honestly can absolutely...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to bsss's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think in this approach (which I like, at least in some contexts), to answer your subsequent question, it's not that there are no...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Yes! At least some of the consequences can be such. So if there is always an option that does not affect the internal world of the...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
What about having those consequences be external to the player? I.e., the NPC rolls a nat 20 for an attempt to deceive, and the player...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.This is a compromise thus perfect satisfaction is not guaranteed. It merely lowers the odds of the game being ruined in comparison to...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Then they presumably either begrudgingly apply one of them anyway or quit playing the game.
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Yes, it is at odds. That's why this is a compromise solution. But at least if there is several consequences to choose from , there is a...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.So I don't use luck points or inspiration in my D&D, but I actually used something like you describe. (And yeah, it was meta.) We have...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.No it is not. Because the player would have to choose some impactful consequence, and we would have a list those choose from (or at...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.It is rather poor list of consequences if it is so easy to choose the one which is the least trouble. And if the point is to choose a...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah, I'm not ok with, "Your character thinks..." "Your character feels..." "Your character believes..." That immediately feels like...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.What I think would be a good mid-point design, is that there are these consequences, but it is the player who gets to choose which one...