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I just thank Hobo that the Brannich Blacksmoke option was included so I didn't have to think or make any hard choices. Phew, dodged a bullet there.

As you said, Fiest and Brooks. I can add the Mithgar series by Dennis McKiernan and the Chronicles of the Shadow War by Chris Claremont (the Willow series). I've heard Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series is Tolkienesque. I like rifing off of Howard, Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler...

Harrumph! Wasn't no "anime" in Gary's D&D, ain't gonna be none in mine! Now get off my lawn ya damn hippy!

Oy, the pedantry. I think that was what a +8 Ego Whip vs my Mind Blank?

If it ain't red, I say it's fair play. Poke 'em till the red comes out. :devil:

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As I replied over there... It depends on the flavor of the fantasy genre I'm running. I'm about to run a campaign where all "magical" power is external and used/activated/gained either through negotiation (often dangerous and delicate) with spirits/demons or ritualistic and slow. In this...

But if he was on your account, then ... ?

What? Anger isn't disproval, it's dismissal and contempt. As well fear is submission over disproval. I can't grieve for lost opportunites? For potentials that can never happen? And Anger is a "future expectation"? Anger is usually over what has occured or is occuring, rarely is it over...

What was incorrect about Plutchik's Wheel?

But railroading is not. Liking and not liking and the degrees of investment in the rails is group relative Cheating is also a tool. Neither good nor bad. On no. It was railroading the whole way. So? You have anything to add or subtract from what I said or are you just admiring your own...

No. I'll borrow your plotline: Linear: Day 1 the Evil Vizier has his minions kidnap some innocents, Day 2 the minions will transport the victims to the Sunburst Vale, Day 4 the victims will be sacrificed to bring forth and controll the Aithar Ghosts. What the characterss do after getting a...

Railroad: Players have little to no control over the character's destiny, little to no affect over the outcome of the pace of events. Linear Plotline: Event will occur regardless of character's action or inaction, however the Player's still control the characters actions and behavoir...

Correct. Railroading is a tool. And all of them (except the ones that agree with me) are wrong. ;)

It's happened, one of my pet peeve buttons has been pushed. Repeatedly. Yes it is. It's just a railroad the players happen to like. A railroad is when control and choice over the characters actions are removed from the player. Nothing more, nothing less.

If it's a terribly railroady DM they most certianly are acting the Director.

That art is ... special.

As well his players are accostomed to his style (which is to do something "outrageous" every session or so) and they trust him to keep it fun. Like wise he knows what works with his crew and is flexible.

Sure. I'd give it a go. I hated 3e and 4e alike. I'm sure I'd hate 5e the same way. :cool:

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