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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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"X Int = 10X IQ" is from a 40 year old Dragon article, and doesn't represent the realities of modern neotrad play. Character concept is... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.My cousin Mike!
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Well, you just added that. I think that someone failing to play low INT to your liking isn't affecting anyone but you, but I'm sure a...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I think the idea that human intelligence can be fully and accurately represented by a single number is very silly, and so any demand or...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yes it is. Mental acuity doesn't mean "how fast you come up with ideas", it's much, much broader and more vague term than that. No. It...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Out of curiosity, what kind of behavior would you accept as "roleplaying a low int"?
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I still have to read the write-up - but as a BWHQ fan, I could not let this go past without comment. (Admittedly I've not played Mouse...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think by using really open setting as the contrast with railroad, you are building in an assumption that at least some RPGers - eg me...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Also, in a lot of games, there are various ways for stats to improve, and in some games that's an expectation. Not that many folks would...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I like the idea that it's emergent. If you look at the definitions/descriptions of the attributes some of them cover a LOT of...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Great minds, and all that . . . It seems that in some cases - even many cases - the GM's reason is to preserve a pre-authored conception...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Also, there’s the chance that the low-Charisma character could conceivably succeed on every Charisma-based check they ever have to make...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Ok, let's say I roll up a character and end up with a 3...a three...in Charisma. I come up with a story about my character, about her...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I think it’s meant to be like “force of personality” or something… but yeah, breaking down the spectrum of human ability into six...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hriston's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I don't know what the GM's reason is for violating table expectations to control my character's choices. Why do you assume it's...