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Flying Toaster reacted to Gradine's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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I mean, of course there are sandboxes where this is not really a problem at all, but there is a broad spectrum between sandbox and... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Gradine's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The presence of tracks, whether visible or invisible, does not a railroad make. Neither does adding one-off bottlenecks (like a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TheSword's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
It’s a tangent and not related to the OP but I can’t agree with you here. There is a huge difference between the - as you say - popular...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
If the GM establishes nothing, then it's a rowboat world and none of their choices matter because there is nothing to do and no...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I don't see how or why you would claim that. And I understand where you got that idea even less. Right. That's what makes it heavy...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I not only have GM fiat at the heart of my definition, but since I don't really judge railroading on the basis of "good/bad", my...
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Flying Toaster 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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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
That's really about the limit of when you can make play be character driven rather than party driven. I fully agree with one player and...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
Giving us Garfield Minus Garfield, but for Vecna, is probably the best way to do Vecna content. Strongly endorse.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
You know, I have issues with this being only two states, and only one party gets any input on what state you are in. RPGs are...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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General Update: Since I gave them their forks back to leave the feywild any time they want, they have decided to stay and doo the... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I should note that with this group when I did a Session Minus One with them, I gave them a questionnaire about their gaming preferences...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
There might be nuance (there's always nuance). But this isn't that nuance. Look, this is probably a silly thing for us to argue about...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah, in any game that requires prep these sort of limitations always exist to some degree. And it is fine. Like if in the case of your...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
It means that applying techniques like small world, obdurium walls, false choices, or Schrodinger's maps can be justified if the GM is...