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Maggan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, I'm on that train as well, and in my group we railroad at times, just to keep things moving along. And sometimes play is... -
Maggan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I am going to disagree with you here as well, but I don't really desire to get pulled into the weeds discussing semantics. I like... -
Maggan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I am going to disagree with you here. Linear =/= Railroad. Like, at all. Railroad specifically talks about a degenerate form of play...
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Maggan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I'll thank you to keep my weight out of this! :eek: -
Maggan reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It was an example, not a definition, but okay... Except insofar as "force" the the generic name for the tools used to enact...
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Maggan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There's a difference between railroad and linear to me. To me a railroad means the GM overrides everything, no choice ever matters and...
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Maggan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I suspect that this thread is like a beer that's left out by bartenders to attract flies around one spot away from the rest of the bar...
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Maggan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..At least it is the thread with the most Off Topic tangents ever. :D
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Maggan reacted to TorgoTheWhite's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah my phone has a mind of its own. Just a quote I didn't want to make
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Maggan reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I tend to limit the term railroad to the derogatory usage, to avoid confusion. Otherwise, I just prefer the term linear. If an...
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Maggan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There's always going to be a spectrum from sandiest of sandboxes to the extremist of railroads, let's say a scale of 1-10. Most...
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Maggan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sorry, but having events happen independent of characters doesn’t make something a railroad. There seems to be some major conflation...
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Maggan reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For me, if the players are aware and choose to follow along, as they would in most published adventures - that's not railroading. The...
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Maggan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
As long as the players voluntarily stay on the tracks it’s not a railroad. The moment a dm intervenes to keep them on the tracks, that...
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Maggan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Ok, I guess it's time for all of us in this thread to jump on the "what is railroading" train! All aboard! :D My most popular published...