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  1. Reynard

    Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk?

    I agree that the Dragonmarked Houses are akin to cyberpunk mega corps (I have used them that way myself). I vehemently disagree with categorizing Eberron as Steampunk. It is magitech and aetherpunk.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table.

    "Flee" can't force the target to go a specific direction. It has no control, only a compulsion. If the target has multiple avenues of equal "speed" they are free to choose. Trying to power up command is metagame, power munchkin nonsense and if my players demanded it, they would very quickly find...
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    Yeah,that debacle seemed to accelerate other folks plans more than create them.
  4. Reynard

    The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits

    Huh. I had mine for literal decades and the binding remained good.
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    I think Micah meant in the thread. No need to be snarky when someone just asks a question.
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    5.5 is not a different edition, nor did it change the rules of 3PP availability. Those are why Pathfinder was made and succeeded.
  7. Reynard

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

    There's a middle ground: them actually looking for different paths and solutions.
  8. Reynard

    D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table.

    You can run it however you want but you are simply adding details that aren't in the spell description. I will say that if players decided this is how they wanted it to work at the table, I would totally oblige them.
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    But WotC hasn't stopped publishing 5E material, so there can't be a Pathfinder for it.
  10. Reynard

    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    And when that happens, what will the 5E holdout community look like? Will there be a Pathfinder like move by someone with the 5E ruleset? With 2 5E contenders in place -- ToV and A5E -- it seems like some portion of the base would continue playing 5E, but how many? How many current D&D players...
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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    This, of course, leads to the problem of perceived railroading. Sometimes players do not have perfect knowledge of a situation, so "no" feels arbitrary and very much like railroading (as in my OP example). I am honestly not sure what the best way to deal with it is because the gM keeps stuff...
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    I agree, but even without stirring the 2024 pot, the OP largely rests on the idea that 5E being in the CC means that D&D is forever. That only tracks if one assumes 5E is not just the best but the last version of D&D. That's silly, IMO.
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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    Right. IMO that's just the normal part of the conversation that is playing a TTRPG.
  14. Reynard

    D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table.

    The spell does not say anything about changing the creature's personality or awareness or anything else. It plants a singular, specific compulsion in the target's mind. The target then follows that compulsion as if of its own free will. The flee command requires it move away from the target the...
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    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    I still don't understand, given the history of the game, how so many people have convinced themselves that 5E is the holy grail, forever edition and best possible version of D&D. I like 5E (If I'm a little bored with it's dusty mid '10s design) but it certainly isn't the final form of D&D.
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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    Again, if we talk about railroading as something the GM does, then we can break the implicit link between linearity and railroading. It means railroading is the GM saying "no" when they should otherwise be saying yes to player choices of action. Note that this does not say anything about outcome...
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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    It's probably easier to avoid bad GMs.
  18. Reynard

    We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

    That's because it doesn't exist and it is a pretty gross thing to say.
  19. Reynard

    D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table.

    These interpretations are not supported by the text.
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