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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I think there can be a bit of a middle ground here. They're bus drivers. They still have a route they need to follow (to various... -
The relative success of WotC and Paizo selling story path modules, and the number of DMs who run games that either use those modules...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Post Apocalypse Settings.Well, I still think its post-apocalyptic--one of the classics of the genre, Hiero's Journey was probably at least that far down, and...
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A sizable percentage of players want the DM to tell the story and for their role to be sit back and occasionally participate. The...
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Thomas Shey reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with
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Pre-written adventure paths certainly do this, yes. But so does making the GM the absolute arbiter of absolutely everything. Telling... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
What I think might encourage some railroading in D&D is the reliance on published adventure paths. A lot of people run these. And these...
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Yes. I'm actually running Daggerheart with another group currently. I really like it. I'm concerned that it might go too narrative for...
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This is one of those games I really want to get and run, but I fear it’d go badly since I know I’m the only mecha/Kaiju nut in my gaming...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Post Apocalypse Settings.Depends how far back the apocalypse was. A lot of SF and fantasy settings have an apocalypse in their background, but its far enough...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Kichwas's post in the thread Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs? with Like.
Foundry is really not that complicated to set up. But beyond that the UI is usually just nicer. I say usually because in v13 they made...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What do you do with a character when a player bails forever? with Like.
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Not really. I have been very close to some really, really bad stuff in real life and I am not the least bit interested in misery porn...
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To each their own, but for the life of me I can't imagine how that would be fun.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Again, though, reliving your experiences with bullies & other problematic people before your adult intellect had a meaningful impact on...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Most of us have something that will trigger that sort of response. Sometimes it's a perfectly reasonable response to an unreasonable...