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https://www.enworld.org/threads/tuckers-kobolds-really-that-tough-a-challenge.248319/page-6#post-4623966

So, several things. Can the Kobolds make things that aren't represented by amount of skill implied by their stat block? In 1e AD&D this is the intelligence listed for the monster. In 3e AD&D this the Craft (Traps) skill. Are the traps made by the Kobolds in line with the sort of crude...

@EzekielRaiden: The important thing is what this does to table dynamics, not the impact it has mechanically on the game. I have seen a lot what I think you are talking about where some players, usually playing in pawn stance, whose whole approach to the game is "win by whatever means...

My game is homebrew. Rules are just a launching point for that to reduce the amount of work I have to do to something closer to managable.

I give small XP rewards for taking actions that advance particular alignments, destroying altars, holy/unholy objects, or restoring lost objects to the proper cults. For example, a minor magic item might be evil aligned. A good character gets an XP reward for destroying it rather than keeping...

As I said in my post, backstory doesn't tell you things that alignment does. The definitive example here is that each of the Seven Sentence NPCs in the classic Dragon Article could be of any of the nine alignments, have the same backstory, and yet be because the variance in alignments...

It doesn't even have to be remotely imminent. Assuming that you can grasp infinity, then all you have to teach is, "We will inevitably win in a finite amount of time." For example, an evil cult might say, "Eventually nonexistence will triumph over existence. The heat death of the universe is...

I think that Green Ronin's "Book of the Righteous" does a pretty good job of dealing with this question. I could also address this question in the terms of my campaign, which is truly polytheistic and not henotheism as is typically seen in D&D. Most characters in my campaign world are not...

The thing about using "Tucker's Kobolds" is that you should take inspiration from Tucker but not do what he did. https://www.enworld.org/threads/tuckers-kobolds-really-that-tough-a-challenge.248319/page-2#post-4619616 The goal of "Tucker's Kobolds" should be to be fair to both players and...

Alignment is something that if you don't have you usually have to invent. It need not be D&D alignment in the classic 3x3 grid, but it needs to be something that says explicitly on the character sheet, "This playing piece is meant to be more than just a pawn with a move set." Most systems tend...

One wonders how you think that's a strong argument. And for the record, I linked to my definition of a railroad. It's therefore very definitely and literally printable. There is even a little menu item on the brower you are using for that purpose should you wish to prove it to yourself. If...

Ummm... did Hasbro deliver a bunch of money? I thought the whole Daggerheart thing was because Hasbro wouldn't pay them. If they don't even support their own system, what was the point of it? I mean the campaign was originally in Pathfinder (Percy was a Gunslinger). They dropped that for...

I just don't even bother to play with people who tell me that the improv a sandbox anymore. Honestly, at this point, if someone tells me how good they are at improv, it's just a massive red flag. The whole game is likely to be, "Whatever." Certainly, quests weren't at the forefront of play...

The Dragonlance adventure path was the first time I remember this becoming a big debate, precisely because by the text the adventures had a lot of very heavy handed railroading advice. Railroads had occurred before in D&D, but not campaign length ones and not with just heavy handed devices for...

That's true of a linear game because you can generally expect where the next session is going to be. But in a true sandbox you are unlikely to guess what is going to happen. Generally speaking, I'd only expect to be able to prep for only the next session in a sandbox campaign if and only if it...

IF I'm using a Schrodinger's Map then objectively I'm still railroading you even if you don't know it, don't catch me, and enjoyed the adventure. The question is though, "Is that a problem?" In my opinion it can be depending on the player's aesthetics of play. If a player is primarily playing...

If we accept this description, then there would have been no discussion about railroads while there existed an assumed and reinforced discourse about the GM-centric model. But of course, railroads occur and were discussed and examples of techniques for creating one occur from a very early...

I think that is a grotesquely simplified version of not only RPG history but the dynamics of play. My reading of the very first RPG campaign as conducted by Dave Arneson is he very much wanted to run an open world sandbox with lots of player agency and player driven goals but that his players...

So, interesting experiment. I have thoughts about it but I don't want to give spoilers.

Sandboxing isn't the opposite of railroading. Sandboxing or "open world" is the opposite of a linear adventure or "adventure path". But it is appropriate to think of sandboxing as "off-roading" anyway I think. The defining trait of a sandbox is that you prepare far more content than you...