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railroading to me when the GM only has a single goal for the situation/campaign that they are going to allow, one that they will enforce...
Feb 11, 2026
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The problem with this is that the term "railroading" is never going to be able to drop its derogatory baggage. And so insisting that...
Feb 11, 2026
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I agree. I was just pointing out that DM Force and DM Fiat are easy to abuse, sometimes even accidentally.
Feb 11, 2026
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Bad GMing solves itself.
Feb 11, 2026
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The presence of tracks, whether visible or invisible, does not a railroad make. Neither does adding one-off bottlenecks (like a...
Feb 11, 2026
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A lot of times it is. DM Force like DM fiat are critical and amazing tools when running D&D. Both, though, can easily be abused by a...
Feb 11, 2026
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I am left wondering, will Josh Gad return in Avengers: Doomsday?
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I have no desire to drive in London...rush hour or not. The worse traffic I was ever in was around 8? years ago in Los Angeles. It...
Feb 11, 2026
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You should look at this thread, because again, almost everything "modern" has been around for 30+ years...
Feb 11, 2026
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Force forces it on the players. A party who is careful can spot and avoid A and B, so those are not force. C forces the storm(not...
Feb 10, 2026
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I wanted to run a side quest in the faewild with the plot of said side quest being that the Winter Court had staged a coup. So I decided...
Feb 10, 2026
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Honestly, I'm still lost because in the middle of what was already discussion of the definition of one term of art suddenly we were...
Feb 10, 2026
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To me DM force is when the DM makes something happen. For example, if the group were going through a mountain pass and I thought that...
Feb 10, 2026
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I love how this thread is mainly Americans saying "I'm not British but I met one once and here are my thoughts"
Feb 10, 2026
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Because force is where this best practices conversation stemmed from. @Umbran said, "Are you going to claim "zero/minimal GM force" is...
Feb 10, 2026
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