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Yeah, I realized it was a little heavy handed so I have returned them (in play, so not a retcon) and now they are free to decide what to do.

The player characters came in through a permanent gate to the feywild, and that gate had been enchanted to relieve anyone passing through of their tuning forks if they have them. The Winter Coup took place a while ago, relative time speaking, and the Winter Court has had time to lock down the...

Specific Question: If they made a big CRPG based on any of the official 5E campaign adventures, which one would you prefer and why?

Peter Principal at work?

Unless one expects there customers to play most of those campaigns. Easter eggs and metaplots are rewards for PLAYERS, not characters.

Man there is a lot of hyperbole in this thread.

I mean, in D&D, the tuning forks are literally the way that magic works across all planes. Why is this "weirdly specific and contrived"?

Or, you know, every crusader. The notion that sword and shield as a combo somehow originated as a D&Dism is simply laughable.

Also, and this might better be a subject for a second thread, I don't think "prep fiat" is any more valid than "play fiat."

While I don't wholeheartedly disagree, I think this sort of appeals to the authority of the books and/or rules in a way that is unsatisfactory. It suggests that the players should always have perfect information and always have the right tool. That just isn't true. Now in this case I started...

Interesting, I had not thought about GM fiat as a form of railroading.

As I have said since the OP, I definitely railroaded the party INTO the scenario. But i also don't think it remains a railroad after that, and I certainly do not agree with (or even understand) the idea that me not having a required solution is somehow also railroading.

I was replying to @TheSword who suggested stopping the player from using plane shift to just immediately leave the faewild was stopping a "creative solution" to the trapped problem. That isn't a creative solution, it was a standard solution that was not possible.

Sure, but I was referring to casting plane shift in order to, you know, shift planes.

Aside: is casting a standard spell for its intended purpose a "creative solution"?

How small can a railroad be? Is a linear dungeon design a railroad?

I don't think "a situation" can be "a railroad" since the latter requires some sort of movement on the rails. I don't think "You are trapped in the faewild" is a railroad. I don't even think "And the only way out is to convince the Faeild Gatekeeper to let you out" makes it a railroad. It...

I think it is a failure of imagination to want a TTRPG experience to be exactly like some other medium. TTRPGs are their own thing, and while not every genre or playstyle makes things like gear important, I am of the opinion that trying to plan attacks against space-Nazi opponents kind of...

Do you just not like superhero comics, or is there something specific about Marvel and DC books?

I mean, "We want to go to Sigil," vs "This campaign is set in ancient Ireland." There is a line. "The GM says No," can't be the definition of "railroading". That is just silly.