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<blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 18234" data-attributes="member: 743">Spacecrime.com: I will be. there's tons more adventures to be had that don't require that dragon to make them happen. He may reoccur far down the line, if the party ever goes to the abyss, but then again, he might not.Psychotic Jim and Zarrock: That requires way too much effort from me, and I'm looking forward to Return to the Tomb of Horrors. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Wolfspider: If you fudge, then you ARE railroading. By making it so that the party cannot defeat their enemies, you are raildroading them into a position where they must face them on your terms, when you want them to. I prefer to allow my players free reign over their fates. Not only does that require not railroading them in the classic &quot;follow the plot to the letter&quot; sense, but also in the less obvious types of railroading, such as fudging.My players also wnjoy an epic confrontation, but they're not so stupid that they won't take revenge when they get the chance too. . . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="James McMurray, post: 18234, member: 743"] Spacecrime.com: I will be. there's tons more adventures to be had that don't require that dragon to make them happen. He may reoccur far down the line, if the party ever goes to the abyss, but then again, he might not. Psychotic Jim and Zarrock: That requires way too much effort from me, and I'm looking forward to Return to the Tomb of Horrors. :-) Wolfspider: If you fudge, then you ARE railroading. By making it so that the party cannot defeat their enemies, you are raildroading them into a position where they must face them on your terms, when you want them to. I prefer to allow my players free reign over their fates. Not only does that require not railroading them in the classic "follow the plot to the letter" sense, but also in the less obvious types of railroading, such as fudging. My players also wnjoy an epic confrontation, but they're not so stupid that they won't take revenge when they get the chance too. . . :-) [/QUOTE]

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