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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8815260" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Open world play predates the railroad. Dragonlance invented railroad campaigns. That was the great innovation.And I can't speak for what everyone likes, but I know my current players like that sort of thing. To a degree, they want me to tell them a story. A story they can be involved with, interact with and influence to be sure. But still a story.I've tried open world play with them and they didn't know what to do with themselves. They just sat around looking at each other waiting for something to happen.Impressions are subjective, and mine is probably coloured by having come in right at the start with DL1. It's certainly a world of good vs evil, and one of my issues with the setting is how it defines "good" clashes with mine. But it's not a "world of dragons" (any more than the Realms are Forgotten). At the start, dragons are completely absent from the world (it turns out they were in hiding), and bringing back the good dragons to counter the evil dragons is an objective of the early modules. But even then dragons are not numerous (they are few enough that most are named). Their role in the war is more that of the battleship than the horse. Dragonlance very much believes in player character exceptionalism. There are the heroes (and villains) who, at very high level, might get to ride a dragon and use a dragonlance. Then the was everyone else, who walked.My other distinct impression, as a British person, was just how American it all felt. To the same degree that the Shire feels ever so English.</blockquote>

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