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Based on the clarification, still believe it is NOT railroading. Spell slot didn't work as the material component was missing. Chance...

In this case, the failure came with additional information: the spell did not fail, rather the caster discovered that their planar...

I don't want to get too into the weeds on this specific situation, but I really did not have a solution in mind. That is usually how I...

No it's not. the DM doesn't care what they do or have any desire for any specific thing. There's no guessing at what the DM wants...

Yes and no. The downside, which was pointed out by the designers themselves, is how much front-loading and increased complexity open...

The Void happened when they were already trapped in the faewild. The PCs were looking for someplace that was out of the plane to do...

Yeah I think this combined with a general late 2000s-era fad for "he's a jerk but he's right!" characters who were curiously almost...

Probably because they are his only real character traits. The original stories are interesting mysteries but Holmes is essentially a...

Here is an old thread from the dawn of Plus threads that has a lot of discussion about the idea...

Being honest, I bristle when players act like I am trying to screw them over instead of trusting me. We have bene playing together since...

Some clarifications: I did force them into the faewild as a side trek, but as with most "adventuyres" I write, it is a situation and...

And if you succeed at the skill check, you defeat the goblin? or are there a bunch of other systems at play there?

So I had this situation last night when a player got upset because he felt the party was being "railroaded" and I take issue with his...

You can't refuse to choose a path and then get mad at me when I put one in front of you.

Right but that was an actual tinker, not a steampunk engineer.