Thomas Shey's latest activity

Non-linear would be it. Folks didnt start using sandbox as a negative, so having to try and soften the offense hasnt been necessary. I...

To me, that's the HUGE difference. If the players come in eyes open (player buy-in) then "railroading" and all the negative connotations...

Some of it will come down to the writing and some GM execution. Not all adventure paths avoid tendencies to railroad and a GM cleaving...

My point was in some cases the information to lead you further along in the AP is contained within one of the nodes a lot of time, and...

Wish that I could send emails like that one to clients that don't take my responses as the answer, because they don't like it, so they...

I'm curious how you view typical Adventure Path and Plot Point style campaigns. I've played in a couple of Paizo's for PF2e, and while...

Well, you certainly confused my point. You're talking about handing the player shiny tokens for RPing these kinds of things that they...

I'm not disputing that Cap is a Superhero, and that is both because of his ethics and because of the 'heroic boost' he gets on top of...

I was a high-flying philosophy student in my undergrad days. Studied a little bit of most systems. My big takeaway was that most...

In particular, if you don't know anything about a subject, you neither have to present an opinion without information, nor even do the...

Eh, honestly, if someone is doing it just to be a jerk, they can just bake in the kind of behavior they want to in buying Disadvantages...

That's what I thought I remembered too. Its both uncertain, and leaves you largely in the same situation when the next round rolls around.

I know that's a common feeling with some parts of the hobby, but I'll tell the truth; doing something like it in a game where...

Why yes, yes it does. :)