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hawkeyefan reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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If nothing else, reading this thread has opened my eyes to just how completely restricted a GM can make player choices and not be... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Railroading is not about the agency of the characters. It's about the agency of the players. A simple example: if my PC is possessed by...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Reynard, It is clear you don't think it is railroading, and that you don't really want to hear other perspectives. But from this thread...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
That and how you did it. A wide area dimensional lock would have been less invasive and less disrespectful of their character's agency...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.That’s how some campaigns work. Not all. The idea that this was a “side jaunt” with the intention of bolstering them by level or by...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.So I’ve read most of the thread, including the follow up clarifications. It’s certainly possible I missed some details by commenting so...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I mean, railroading as a term is "fraught" in the sense that it's generally considered to be pejorative if used to describe a particular...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
If railroading as a term is kind of fraught, isn't "GM force" just as challenging? I don't know what boundary I would draw around "GM...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Sure it was. One act of railroading is still railroading. It's just a less-bad kind. This all feels a bit "Do they give a nobel prize...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I mean, if you as a GM frame a situation such that there is exactly one solution, you kinda laid down the tracks already, right?
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
My sense of railroading is based less on agency and more on the use of GM force. I think that linear adventure design is fine and I'm...
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hawkeyefan reacted to MGibster's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
In a few months I'll be running a Delta Green campaign, and in this campaign the player characters will be marked by a cosmic entity...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
On a side note, this statement also leans more into the railroad for many players. So now, the players are just acting on impulses you...