Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5585457" data-attributes="member: 21169">Yeah. The term 'pixelbitching' has been put forward for that type of thing, from videogames where you have to click on one particular pixel or nothing will happen. Although the PCs are free to go anywhere, nothing very interesting will happen unless they pick the single correct solution.What if a GM allows the players to try any or all of these things but makes them extremely difficult and/or unrewarding for the PCs? So the GM's preferred path thru the campaign is easy street, the path of least resistance. Everything else is, not impossible, but much, much more difficult. For example if the PCs join the draconian army they get given all the terrible jobs, are constantly insulted and occasionally attacked by their own side (friendly fire!) and their new allies steal any nice treasure they acquire. Railroad? Heavy-handed? Passive-aggressive GMing? &quot;You guys are free to go anywhere and try anything you want! (It's just that if you don't do what I want you'll always fail.)&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 5585457, member: 21169"] Yeah. The term 'pixelbitching' has been put forward for that type of thing, from videogames where you have to click on one particular pixel or nothing will happen. Although the PCs are free to go anywhere, nothing very interesting will happen unless they pick the single correct solution. What if a GM allows the players to try any or all of these things but makes them extremely difficult and/or unrewarding for the PCs? So the GM's preferred path thru the campaign is easy street, the path of least resistance. Everything else is, not impossible, but much, much more difficult. For example if the PCs join the draconian army they get given all the terrible jobs, are constantly insulted and occasionally attacked by their own side (friendly fire!) and their new allies steal any nice treasure they acquire. Railroad? Heavy-handed? Passive-aggressive GMing? "You guys are free to go anywhere and try anything you want! (It's just that if you don't do what I want you'll always fail.)" [/QUOTE]

Verification