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That’s interesting to me. Being railroaded doesn’t typically apply to crpgs save your one example and that determination revolved around your expectations. That’s part of why I brought up crpgs, to understand why the term applies to tyrpgs and not to crpgs. So far the best explanation has...

So is railroad being restricted to ttrpg’s instead of say something like Expedition 33?

Many RPGs are set up such that players are passive observers to the story and just actively play to overcome specific obstacles to progress the story.

Many video games try to emulate a grand story like Star Wars and have the player play through that specific story with specific characters that make specific decisions. Doing so in a game designed for that purpose is no more a railroad than Star Wars is.

I don’t know which position is yours since your 2 back to back posts explicitly contradicted themselves.

What first level feat gives access to hunters mark?

It’s such a minor boost though. And in the bladesingers corner it’s not even clear if the tradeoff to pick up hunters mark is actually worth the cost. Like that HM change doesn’t materially change where those classes rank. It’s like a millionaire getting a penny richer.

George Lucas wrote Star Wars. The characters have no choice but to go along the rails he already laid. Is Star Wars a railroad? I don’t think so. I don’t think many do. Star Wars is a story and stories are not railroads. Most games try to tell stories about specific characters, places and...

I’m struggling to find a practical use case on a non ranger where this is particularly strong. It still costs bonus actions. You still need extra attacks to really make use. If you decide you want to melee you still need to worry about concentration on whatever concentration spell you cast...

what do you consider a single solution?

What would?

I agree here but I think in context of my reply to your post and your post I replied to that your shifting what ‘1 solution means’ when you answer me here. Original Quote: Rephrasing your current reply, ‘it’s now about whether there’s a specific path instead of a single solution.’

I think about it a bit differently. In the extreme cases we all agree what is railroading. One way of resolving term ambiguity is to anything that even slightly has some element of the extreme cases is a railroad. I understand why that would be appealing, but it defeats the purpose of...

How does that jive with challenges that really only should have 1 solution?

@Zardnaar It’s probably more balanced with other styles to not let GWM damage bonus apply to the cleave attack. However it’s probably more fun and closer to player expectations to have it apply. The rules are a bit ambiguous but seems to me that 2024 explicitly notes anything done as part of...

OA can occur during attack actions as well, that doesn’t make them part of the attack action. Reaction to move after being hit against a multi attacking opponent.

I think those that conflate linear and railroad aren’t typically consistent with their meaning.

IMO. One cannot have player agency at all without the possibility of a choice now to restrict choices in a later moment. If it’s impossible for your choices to do that then those aren’t meaningful choices.

Pushing back a bit here regarding how you play it vs what I perceive as the intended purpose of the rule structure. I thought the whole point of BitD clarifying position and effect after a ‘declared action’ was so a player could say oh, I didn’t realize the effect would be so little so im going...

1. Not a railroad. 2. Generally I don’t. For me a railroad is more of an extreme thought experiment construct than a term describing actual reality. For me the quintessential railroad is when a PC with nearly unlimited options does things and no matter what the PC does the DM responds in...