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railroad - Wiktionary meaning 4. If the GM is not bullying you into taking the one true path, it's not a railroad. If you can say no and the game goes on without the universe conspiring to make you do what the GM wants, it's not a railroad.

I say it's coming from the GM for not having a plot. That's not what I said. The players are just doing good. The Overlord hears about it, and not liking do-gooders and being a proactive sort of guy who read the evil overlord list and knows that it's best to nip these things in the bud sends...

After the players defeat the villain and his evil cult they spend a few days soaking up the town's thanks, and then news comes from the next town over that the exact same mysterious deaths are happening there with the same mutilations and the same type of victims and same MOs. Adjust for...

You are still putting pressure on your players in your vision of a sandbox game. Think of something to do or we'll all be bored. Depends on the villains. Maintaining their position as Dark Overlord takes actions as well. One of those actions would be to neutralize the group of plucky...

You wanted to ready an action, not delay it, but I take your point as a generality. Hey, some of us play d20 games that have that. ;) I've used the 3d6 variant in UA, and it doesn't really screw up the math regarding bonuses, other then making them slightly more important since the dice will...

Assuming there's a reason and doing so drives forward the character's story (not my story, the characters story) it's all fine and good. When it devolves to the whole damn night and ignores several clues that there's nothing here? It's time to move on. That doesn't mean go kill things. I'm...

Not by any conventional definition of the word. By definition a railroad constrains players actions. Consequences for non-action are not railroading. A rather silly example for a game about apprentice wizards on middle school might involve preventing the lunch lady from serving brussel sprouts...

Stop redefining jargon. It's a railroad when the GM doesn't let you do anything other then what he's plotted out. The GM presenting you with hooks playing off of your background and characterization is not railroading. Even if he can accurately predict how you will react to that hook. It just...

In as far as a GM should reward behavior (good descriptions, witty and in character or appropriate one liners, etc) he wishes to see more of, yes. You completely over state the analogy though. How amazingly realistic. Uh huh. Sounds rather boring actually. One of my main issues with...

Makes a certain amount of sense. Um... that's not what you posted from the book said. It says animals have CON/4 points of vitae and taking one point of vitae from them does 2 points of CON damage.

I don't know, reading your quote over it sounds more like: Animals have CON/4 in vitae. Draining a point a vitae does 2 CON damage. CON 12 human would have 3 vitae, draining all three would do 6 CON damage. Why it's not possible to kill someone with the rules you quoted, I have no idea. I...

At the moment, I'm running a military game, so things are relatively linear. Go here, achieve these goals, come back and tell us what happened. The PCs have a bit of leeway, Command doesn't tell them how to achieve their goals and they currently are on the equivalent of a long range recon and...

Spycraft 2.0 with Fragile Minds and either the Spellbound books or the Archer conversion document.

Bumbles, the problem is that your stance of not attending any event where alcohol is present on the basis that people might become drunk is on it's face, well, let's say absurd. It's also prejudiced and unfair. You are collecting every person who imbibes (which is probably somewhere on the order...

Wrong tab. Please delete.

Wait... Which supplement did Hunter S Thompson write again?

I've been using an extrinsic outliner called The Guide The Guide - Home

Ok, this is based on the Beta and what I've seen from the playtest. Pile of salt and all that. If I don't pick something out, it's to my knowledge unchanged from 3.5 or are something that is fluff and advice related and won't be known until the book drops. Also, I may be wrong on some of these...

Umbran's right. considering the nature of D&D abilities and sexual dimorphism (ie, the actual differences in strength and whatever between men and women fade into the granularity and averaging of the system) just have them change gender whenever the curse call for it. No mechanical changes. Just...

Because this is the internet. Really, I don't get it either.