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Zzakael19 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Yeah, I realized it was a little heavy handed so I have returned them (in play, so not a retcon) and now they are free to decide what to do. -
Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
on these forums.
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Zzakael19 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
While I don't entirely disagree, this is an area people tend to feel fairly strongly about, so in some cases it may not be so much...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I don't think it's remotely inexplicable. If you kill a PC the player soon gets another. If you beat them up they need a long rest. But...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I mean, railroading as a term is "fraught" in the sense that it's generally considered to be pejorative if used to describe a particular...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Zzakael19 reacted to TheSword's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think almost stealing the tuning forks probably caused more afront than if you had simply stopped planar travel magic working because...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think there's nots of room beyond strictly 'rules as physics'. Lots of games, using all kinds of rules systems, have internal logic...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yup, I think that gates established pre-play and justified by the internal logic of the setting generally escape the gravity of...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
The is interesting, I have GM fiat right at the heart of my definition. Deployed in particular/bad ways mind, not generally.
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Zzakael19 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
If railroading as a term is kind of fraught, isn't "GM force" just as challenging? I don't know what boundary I would draw around "GM...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
That's obviously wrong. It's not even arguable. If you force the PCs into a specific situation with zero buy-in, and then delete the...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
This article is very interesting. I had always suspected that 5e’s big-honking-adventure books were backdoor setting guides. Tyranny of...