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zarionofarabel reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with
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I would generalize further and say that any campaign that starts with the GM having an endpoint in mind (barring a TPK) is a railroad... -
The way to stop players disintegrating the expositing dying villian is to tell them “exposition incoming, do not interrupt”. You can use...
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zarionofarabel reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Not always, and I wish folks wouldn't make such blanket assumptions. A linear adventure can encompass far more than that. Often, there...
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zarionofarabel reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
This does not feel like Railroading. Just about all published adventure modules have a couple different settings, like a swamp or a...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Yes! Yes I would! I would also champion players trying to take the biggest duce they possibly could! 😁 I often see the argument that...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
As long as there is no long range teleportation (which I tend to ban,) there is simply rather limited amount of places the PCs can get...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Well, my personal take is probably odd, but as far as I can tell by what is described as what actually happens at the table, is that a...
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zarionofarabel reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Yep. Best sign of a railroad. Being told you have agency when you have none. So much better to actually have choices that matter. What a...
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zarionofarabel reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Like most of these terms we spend so much time arguing about, railroading is fairly easy to define. Most of the arguments come from...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.If the GM needs to do something to keep the players "on track" well then...there's tracks...which a train runs on...so...
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zarionofarabel reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
Yeah. I've definitely been there. I fluctuate between utterly minimalist rules and pure narrative to something like Marvel Super Heroes...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
Yeah I'd classify HERO as leaning more gamist/tactical than simulationist, whereas GURPS Supers was simulationist, because GURPS...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.I'm not super familiar with a lot of different superhero TTRPGs as it's not really my genre of choice. I do think the more "simulation"...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Zil's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
I remember reading somewhere that the origins of The Expanse were in a long running Traveller game. Traveller always leaned towards...