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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6011678" data-attributes="member: 463">I'm not a big fan of James &quot;Fun!&quot; Wyatt, but I don't think it necessarily involves railroading: as long as it is the genuine choice of the PCs to find and fight the minotaur, skipping over the exploration of the maze is not railroading at all. I do think there is a dysfunctional &quot;My Precious Encounter&quot; version of 4e play that you see in many of the published WoTC adventures. Encounter-centric design can work for a 'Bang' encounter that kicks off an adventure, and for the occasional set-piece, perhaps a climactic encounter with the villain, but the 30-compulsory-fights-in-a-row approach is incredibly bad.I was just reading through P2 &quot;Demon Queen's Enclave&quot;, one of the better HPE adventures, and there is a weird disjunct between the 64-page Encounter book, 30 lots of 'attacks immediately', and the slim 32 page Adventure book which explains that around half these fights are actually avoidable through diplomacy &amp; negotiation!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6011678, member: 463"] I'm not a big fan of James "Fun!" Wyatt, but I don't think it necessarily involves railroading: as long as it is the genuine choice of the PCs to find and fight the minotaur, skipping over the exploration of the maze is not railroading at all. I do think there is a dysfunctional "My Precious Encounter" version of 4e play that you see in many of the published WoTC adventures. Encounter-centric design can work for a 'Bang' encounter that kicks off an adventure, and for the occasional set-piece, perhaps a climactic encounter with the villain, but the 30-compulsory-fights-in-a-row approach is incredibly bad. I was just reading through P2 "Demon Queen's Enclave", one of the better HPE adventures, and there is a weird disjunct between the 64-page Encounter book, 30 lots of 'attacks immediately', and the slim 32 page Adventure book which explains that around half these fights are actually avoidable through diplomacy & negotiation! [/QUOTE]

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