Search results

This, and they admitted as much in follow up chat. But it doesn't necessarily mean that I had not railroaded them into the situation (even if the group of 13th level PCs laden with items and sporting 2 wishes should have been able to do something).

To answer part 2) myself: I don't mind the situation being clear and everyone being "in" for the adventure (I have been a player in a number of WotC 5E adventures, for example). The only time I worry about "railroading" from a player perspective when it is less about a plot that needs to be...

The more I read the responses, the more I think I definitely crossed the "railroad" line with the setup. I wanted to do a side adventure, which was also a call back in a few ways to previous campaigns with the same players, and so just did it. This was partially in response to how this group of...

You can do a lot with reskinning and curating options, but there is a limit.

It is neat how you can diagnose long standing player/GM/group problems with just a few posts. You should hire out and solve problems across r/dndhorrorstories.

In this case, the failure came with additional information: the spell did not fail, rather the caster discovered that their planar tuning fork was gone off their person. Another character (the replacement PC for the currently Voided one) confirmed that they were trapped in the Faewild too...

I don't want to get too into the weeds on this specific situation, but I really did not have a solution in mind. That is usually how I frame things. there is a situation ("You are trapped in the wintery Faewild taken over by a Winter Court coup, and you cannot simply plane shift out.") and then...

The Void happened when they were already trapped in the faewild. The PCs were looking for someplace that was out of the plane to do some stuff before the BBEG could locate them (long story, but they have the body of one of his major lieutenants). They found the Fae Cabin in the remote woods...

Probably because they are his only real character traits. The original stories are interesting mysteries but Holmes is essentially a cypher in them.

Being honest, I bristle when players act like I am trying to screw them over instead of trusting me. We have bene playing together since the mid 90s. Anyway. On the subject of railroads: I don't think setting up the scenario counts, even if the PCs are "forced" into the scenario by the general...

Some clarifications: I did force them into the faewild as a side trek, but as with most "adventuyres" I write, it is a situation and the players are free to deal with it as they may. The player who is unhappy (it is only one person, not the whole group) did NOT expend the spell slot. I told...

And if you succeed at the skill check, you defeat the goblin? or are there a bunch of other systems at play there?

So I had this situation last night when a player got upset because he felt the party was being "railroaded" and I take issue with his definition. I set up the adventure in which the party is stuck in the Faewild after the Winter Court stages a coup and takes over. They have locked down the...

You can't refuse to choose a path and then get mad at me when I put one in front of you.

Right but that was an actual tinker, not a steampunk engineer.

Players: the reason I drink.

As an aside, CAS is cleary the most innovative writer among them. Howard is probably the best writer from a purely skilled prose and storytelling perspective. Lovecraft is the most aggravating, I guess.

Interesting. How do you square that theory with.B&G explicitly stating that they are holding off giving dates until WotC announces the product?

I do think we go through periods where it seems like everyone is talking about one game or system (besides 5E) for an extended period. And DH was that for a bit around its release. I am just saying that it does not feel there there is a single game or system dominating the non-5E conversation...