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Good post. 'Aragorn can't die yet, he hasn't even got to Minas Tirith!'. I guess the other possible fail state for linear play is where characters do die and get replaced to such an extent that you have a Ship of Theseus situation (or Trigger's Broom for those of us in the UK), where by the time...

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So I read through the whole thread and had a think about what a reasonable taxonomy might look like, based largely on contributions made in this thread with some additions of my own, and here it is. ***** Railroading (technique): when the GM negates player agency to preserve their preferred...

At least you're on an even playing field with the other candidates. Might as well say you do (but you're under an NDA)

I think sandbox is a useful term. Maybe toybox would be better, but sandbox is fine. 'Here's a bunch of pre-defined things in a delineated space, play with them as you wish'. There's still an element of GM curation, and if the range of pre-defined things was very small I suppose you might be...

This seems to me to narrow the term out of existence. 'It's only railroading if the GM moves your arm when you roll the dice, otherwise it's just sparkling linear adventurousness'.

Tariffs on PDFs are coming, bet

You're not allowed to join this thread, Snarf Zagyg wouldn't do that.

You tell me, you were the one arguing that only D&D counted.

D&D has been insanely successful because it was good and because it was the first of its type. No other game can ever be the first RPG. I would say that in any context other than 'replaces D&D and penetrates the mainstream' PbtA has been insanely successful.

I was being lightly sarcastic. I live in the UK where, yes, things are terrible, BUT could be worse

Such as? I know Legion, First Heretic, and Master of Mankind have good reviews. Just today I graduated from Flight of the Eisenstein to Fulgrim and it was SUCH a relief. The first bit of Fulgrim is just about some artists but it's palpably better written than Eisenstein was.

Well I'm gonna finish Fulgrim and then skip straight to Saturnine

I'm just glad things are going so great for you guys that the biggest topic of conversation is the comparative reach of different fast food outlets

Two withering responses drafted and deleted without posting I am right, I just can't even

I felt the same, but I just recently started reading the HH novels and Horus Rising by Dan Abnett was genuinely great. False Gods by Graham Mcneil was also pretty good, as is Fulgrim so far (also by Mcneil). I think you pretty much read the first five and the last five and skip the rest, but...

I've been to Naples and had proper pizza. After that most pizzas are pretty disappointing. I like Domino's and think it's better than most restaurant pizzas.

Not really. I've always played WFRP theatre of the mind. It's easy, no difficulties at all. The book presents combat with miniatures because it was made by a miniatures company and they largely assume you will already have them. The rules don't require models or a grid at all. So?

Echo what's been said on WFRP 1e (it's not even slightly wargamey, it's certainly less so than D&D) and MERP/Rolemaster 2e (its reputation for being overly complex is not really fair IMO, the only really complex bits are chargen and levelling. Combat and exploration are pretty smooth IME).