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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...

That's fair, but that isn't the same thing as the design failing in its intent.

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.

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.

You can just say you don't understand Fate. We can help get you there.

I think FitD already had its moment. I have no seen a new one in a while.

::checks horses pulse::

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...

Is this an officially licensed Exandria adventure? If so, I am surprised that CR would allow you to use AI art in the project.