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FrogReaver reacted to Vael's post in the thread What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026? with
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I have seen Hundreds of Beavers (2024) movie. Highly recommend it, haven't laughed so hard for awhile. -
FrogReaver reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Not in my experience (or my Players are better at deception than I think). Either answer works.
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FrogReaver replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.IMO. In 5e the DM determines whether a PC even gets to make a persuasion check against an NPC and the DC and the results. So as long as...
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FrogReaver reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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134 pages in and one thing we've learned for sure is that @Micah Sweet and I both have too much free time. -
FrogReaver reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Like I've said previously, if the player isn't sure what to do and wants help from the dice, they should by all means ask the GM to make...
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FrogReaver reacted to bsss's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Like, in general (not in AnotherGuy's example above, where it's the orc rolling it)? I don't know, that's up to the GM. Maybe they're...
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FrogReaver reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Limits? The DM has to believe that the NPC(s) might be plausibly, but not definitely, persuaded by the argument. For that matter, a...
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FrogReaver reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
You don't roll persuasion against PCs in D&D 5e. That's not what it is for. And as the thread is about railroading, the GM controlling...
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FrogReaver reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
You'd think so, but often I've seen it go a different way. We don't choose our table mates exclusively for playstyle compatibility...
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FrogReaver reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
And my reaction as always is "If I wanted to only play characters that can do what I can, I'd be LARPing." (Though that's probably even...
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FrogReaver reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
on the other hand that kind of thing is exactly what i don't like, the character has detected absolutely zero signs of deception and...
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FrogReaver reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
That, BTW, is the sort of thing I very much do not like and what I do not do when I GM. If the NPC's deception beats the PC's insight...
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FrogReaver reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Any combat system that A) Doesn't have a lot of meaningful decision making and B) Doesn't supply a lot of different outcome results will...
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FrogReaver reacted to Scribe's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Speaking of AI, I just received my first obviously AI generated email from an outsourced resource, and I laughed out loud. Race to the...
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FrogReaver reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Well, to be fair, discussions like the Ryan Dancey announcement, AI art found in books, and AI DMs are all separate discussions worthy...