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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2935911" data-attributes="member: 707">You have obviously ascribed motives to my comments beyond what I put in them.  They were originally a friendly warning between DMs.  I consider myself a competent DM, but I still make missteps every so often.  I certainly wouldn't take offense if I posted about an intended story arc, and another DM said, "sounds interesting, but be careful, I've had a lot of players who didn't have fun when I tried that."  Apparently you do.I understand your point of view.  Apparently you don't understand mine, which is to say that some players (such as myself) do not have fond memories of the plotline.  This has nothing to do with the DM trying to screw the players.  The DM could have the best of intentions.  But not all players will look back fondly on such an event.  In any case, I am letting the subject drop.  I hope your players have a blast with your new plotline.Not at all.  I trust my DM to be fair with encounters.  I trust him to try and provide a fun time for all.  But that doesn't mean I'd enjoy a "capture the PCs" story arc.  Motivation is irrelevant.  The plotline itself is not fun for me.I can assure you that I was not satisfying some need to feel superior by my comments in this thread.  I find the accusation somewhat insulting, but I certainly don't intend to get into a flamewar over it.  Suffice it to say, that's not the mood in which my comments were written.Because I didn't see railroading as having anything to do with it.  They are separate issues.  I don't mind being railroaded (too much, anyway).  I do mind being captured.I'm not sure I would go that far.  You've certainly thrown out some unfounded accusations and made assumptions regarding my motives and personality.  But that's par for the course on the internet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />*shrug*  Regardless of what you think of my posts in particular, I'd suggest you get used to it.  People are going to post what they want to post.Good gaming.</blockquote>

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