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This is getting very offensive so im gonna back out. Thanks for the discussion so far.

Much of the AP design world is a railroad that resembles CRPG play more then an evolving adventure. There’s relatively little space as...

Yes, they are using it as a "less good way to play that some people like for some reason" and ignoring folks who find it objectionable...

Yeah, id second this is one is forced to use a 5E reskin.

Carbon 2185. A good Cyberpunk variant of 5e. High quality, both in terms of art/layout and design. Complete in one core book (there are...

It is not. It splits D&D's race into heritage and culture, and adds an exploration pillar, but it is not more complex than 5E. It is 5E.

Which I do. In fact ive never heard anyone use railroad in any other way but pejoratively. You cant say its a simple playstye when...

Means that linear game is not a railroad.

I think that in @Celebrim 's example there's an inherent acceptance that "the premise of the game means that we need to accept bounties...

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...

I think that happened just before the merger with Embracer Group, but the whole situation was f***** up.

I never played PF1E. However, if Starfinder 1E is anything like PF 1E in design and mechanics, then in my opinion, PF1E is more...

Did you cut the water and bleed the pipes?

🥶 We’re in the midst of one of the coldest streaks on record for our area (16 days in a row where the high temp is below freezing-the...

To be fair, it was done to Asmodee as they got gobbled up in a corporate merger and then saddled with crippling debt.