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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Would you say there is a difference between the act of facing a challenge to something you care about/your character cares about, vs... -
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I hope it's OK if I elaborate a bit on this point. Even the most classic, pawn-stance approach to D&D depends upon a type of "creative... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I think the reason they get dragged along with it for folks who come from other, non-narrative-game perspectives is that these...
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Agreed. A game where the players create freeform descriptors for their characters (like Fate Aspects, or Experiences in Daggerheart, or...
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To be honest, from this description it sounds like your players just didn’t read their copies ahead of time, counting on you to be able...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Class and Subclass Design: What Works.Personally, I thought the 5.0 Warlock "split subclass" concept had a lot of potential. It just wasn't necessary for the Warlock, and the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.It does not. Unless the GM is a control freak, I guess. Why do you insert the "randomly"? That was never mentioned. You are inserting...
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Again you conflate once in a while with every time. First it was your insistence that railroading is any influence at all, being the... -
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Well, 25 years on this site has taught me that people LOVE to argue semantics. :) But the game mode(s) being described by the term...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Perhaps, then, there has been a breakdown in communication, if you believe you are arguing for A, and multiple different people are...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Then if they genuinely are completely unprepared, they should answer honestly: "I don't actually have anything prepared for doing this...
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HAAAA! Oh, that was good. I walked into that one.
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Yes. Should have been d6 or d8. OK for me. Still probably a result of bad wording. Accidently making a bad feat ok. Ok. No. Still a...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Durable feat.There are no classes with a d4 hit die, so as phrased, the question is moot. However, if you had a Cleric, Wizard, etc. with 20 Con...
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It can't be. Many, MANY of your examples of railroading, aren't railroading and don't meet my definition. Hell, you've stated that...