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Hriston reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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That may be, but when assessing how they'll react to something, your view of it (as in, the view other than the players) is pretty much... -
Hriston replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I'm answering a question about when a "campaign constraint" meets the condition of a railroad, so the two states are railroad or not...
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Hriston replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.What's silly is that you're positing a group where play has been predicated on the expectation of being able to go to Sigil even though...
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Hriston replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.When they are imposed by someone other than the player, and they control the PC's decisions or opportunities for decisions in any way...
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The character types (the lady, the maid, the dwarf), the trickery by women (even for reasons Walter finds pardonable, which honestly...
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Hriston replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.William Morris is acknowledged to have been inspirational to the Inklings in general. The Lady in TWBtW, with her dwarf servant, bears a...
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Hriston replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.I've been continuing to read the fantasy novels of William Morris and, so far this year, have finished The Wood Beyond the World and...
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Hriston replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Did the player feel that the situation you presented of being trapped in the Feywild did not meet the expectations set at your table...
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Hriston replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.Appreciate the compliment. There's some more just above if you're interested!
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Hriston replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.I too am a fan of the lore about orcs having been bred from captured and twisted elves. I read the published form of The Silmarillion in...
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Hriston reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Building on what @Campbell has said, and also what I posted upthread: if the principal focus of play - as far as story/theme is...
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Hriston reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed with
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Ironically, elves in my settings-- when I include elves in my settings-- aren't even humanoid, much less human. In Cosmic Rangers, the... -
Hriston replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.Thanks! I've included elves in Homo sapiens for a long time now, under Tolkien's influence, and, when I read Paracelsus' book describing...
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Hriston replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.Personally, I lump humans in with elves as types of undine (trans. waveling) associated with the element water because of the physical...
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Hriston replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.This is basically the Paracelsian setup, except Air is "Sylphs", i.e. Wild Men/Wood Woses, i.e. Ents, and Humans partake of all four...