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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...

Holy crap, I think I finally get it. Thank you. Using the definition from your first paragraph, which should appear in RPG textbooks...

Because you said that a GM having things they like and thus think would be cool to have in their game is railroading. Or at least...

At least in this case, I am partially basing that on this very forum. Folks here very frequently tend to skew that way, sometimes to an...

Have to agree, the CON modifier gets added after the minimum is invoked. Roll vs. total is used all over the place. Here's in ability...

Twilight Cleric is in fact the reason I couldn't say "spellcaster options", because people freaked out about that one pretty hard. "May...

Unfavorable interpretations that make things weaker than they really should be are very common in the 5e community. The community...

I mean, I think there's a very clear reason why.

The Beyond First Level rules distinguish between "roll" and "total", where "total" applies after your Con mod is added. So, assuming the...

those are not railroads, they're linear, the adventures where the players turn off their brain and just follow the signposts are linear...

I would not, personally, call that a form of railroading--if the GM is open about their actions. "Guys, I understand you'd like to do...

Wait wait wait wait wait. So, now it's not, even remotely, about any form of agency at all--even though that's pretty consistently what...

"Railroading is the word for when a GM, through coercion or manipulation, enforces an inflexibly linear experience as part of GMing...

Further, there is a critical difference between GM points being used, and the techniques (or lack thereof...) in D&D. That is, the...

I don't know the details of the Modiphius systems. But I am pretty familiar with the Doom Pool in Marvel Heroic RP. One thing it does...