FrozenNorth's latest activity
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FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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What game are you talking about here? As in, what game involves dice rolls for your PC to keep/lose their cool in non-dramatic... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I suppose. To me, it feels more like when someone explains how they feel or how they reacted or responded to a situation and you hear...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah… there are few scenarios in RPGs I’d rather see less than a bunch of players pretending not to know trolls are vulnerable to fire...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The buy in to Blades is that you’re creating characters that can be traumatised by the events of the game in the way the system says. So...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
yeah, you can intellectually understand that your character might be angry or under pressure, but you really aren't experiencing the...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
As I said upthread, to me it feels like forcing a kid to apologize to his brother when he's not actually sorry.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
You forgot to tell us what the NPC rolled for their social skills. How can I understand/appreciate this story without that key fact?
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FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Honestly, this is exactly the kind of example I spoke about a few days ago, when I talked about maintaining agency when your character...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
So about surprises and playing against your best interests. A while ago in our Blades game our characters were negotiating with an...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I'm giving XP for a player to have his character ditch the main party, put the entire campaign storyline at risk, for him to attempt to...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I couldn't possibly count the number of times in my life that somebody has made a convincing argument I couldn't refute and yet I still...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Frankly, I don't think there is anything but other kinds of immersion. The experience being described there is so personal and so tied...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Because there are some (many) games that you don't want to play in an immersive fashion. To me, those kinds of complaints feel somewhat...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Ah, I wanted to eliminate me as the arbiter of what is good. I do not want that responsibility. I want to stay far away from that as...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah, its largely not going to be visible from the outside; that's why I can slip from Author to IC fairly easily most of the time and...