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SkidAce replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Setting those DCs based on PC actions is organic. All DMs will have to do that if the characters go in a unexpected direction. Thats... -
SkidAce reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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I take exception to the word "whims." A whim suggests that the DM isn't going to bother even thinking the player ideas through to see... -
SkidAce reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think you can railroad players into dealing with what you want them to deal with when they’d rather not, though. Because as noted...
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SkidAce replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Quoted for cosmic truth and justice!
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SkidAce reacted to Gradine's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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This is why I think it's important to have a definition of railroading that isn't needlessly broad. When "bad thing happens to my... -
SkidAce reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
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...
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SkidAce reacted to Gradine's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The problem with this is that the term "railroading" is never going to be able to drop its derogatory baggage. And so insisting that...
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SkidAce replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.So a puzzle door, where only the bad guy and his minions know the solution, which is a common obstacle, is considered railroading?
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SkidAce reacted to Shades of Eternity's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
The Obelisk towers should have been pillars created by Modrons to turn the multiverse into a perfect form of order, using the unlimited...
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SkidAce reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with
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SkidAce replied to the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?."Planes", for the most part are other worlds in other solar systems. Basically a galaxy. Some parts of the "space" in between are...
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SkidAce reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like? with Like.
Vague and unspecified. Things beyond the world the PCs lived on were lore. And by that I mean "stories" not "game-world facts". For...
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SkidAce reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like? with Like.
As far as the government of my world is concerned, the outer planes don't exist. You think you've seen an angel? No you didn't, why...
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SkidAce reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
It was nice to sleep in my own bed in a warm house with clean dishes (we’ve also been having an ongoing dishwasher drama that was...
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SkidAce reacted to kenmarable's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
Yes, between Ray & Chris & the end product, there does seem to be very much a feel of "person in charge had an idea, but when someone...