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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    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...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    You can't refuse to choose a path and then get mad at me when I put one in front of you.
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    D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media

    Right but that was an actual tinker, not a steampunk engineer.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Players: the reason I drink.
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    D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media

    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.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What Is 2026's Big Adventure

    Interesting. How do you square that theory with.B&G explicitly stating that they are holding off giving dates until WotC announces the product?
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    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...
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    That's fair, but that isn't the same thing as the design failing in its intent.
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    It is among those 5E-response games. But it is hardly the only one. For the record, I really like Daggerheart, and it is A hawtness, but it isn't dominating the conversation.
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    I kind of feel like there isn't a "new hotness" right now. There are a bunch of 5E games, and a bunch of 5E-response games, and a bunch of Shadowdark, and a bunch of new licensed games. We are in a pretty diverse period.
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    You can just say you don't understand Fate. We can help get you there.
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    I think FitD already had its moment. I have no seen a new one in a while.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

    ::checks horses pulse::
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    I think Blades in the Dark is a game that is well designed with different modes of play intentionally baked into the design, to the point of breaking up actual play sessions into specific phases. I think that is a feature of the FitD system, rather than the PbtA antecedent, but I could be wrong...
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    Release New Daggerheart-Compatible Campaign Released: Throne of the Arch-Heart Now on DriveThruRPG

    Is this an officially licensed Exandria adventure? If so, I am surprised that CR would allow you to use AI art in the project.
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    D&D 5E (2014) A Time-Based Combat System for 5e (2014): Replacing Actions with Seconds and Making Movement Matter

    I am always fooling around with a competitive D&D concept I call "DungeonBall" and one of the things I have considered a couple times in the process is second by second initiative. One square at a time. If you attack, it costs seconds. If you cast, you have to wait seconds. Like that. It is...
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    D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media

    Here is a link: The Inside Story of the Making of Warcraft, Part 1 - Kotaku Tl;dr version is that they wanted to get the license, could not secure it, and were better off for it.
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    Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc...

    There were, they were just GM facing procedures usually tied to some d6 roll or another. It is unsurprising that GMs just started winging it.
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