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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6376891" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Well, yes it is. However, you can't assume it was designed to be what 4e encounters were. Mearls replied to me himself a few weeks ago in this very forum and said that D&D Encounters for 5e are not going to be like Encounters were for 4e. So this adventure was very much so designed for 5e Encounters. Also, it was the adventure they promoted heavily to kick off the Adventure League. Even if you're not living in the 21st century and didn't seen any of the online promotion, every game store I had been in that participates in Encounters had big posters promoting Tyranny of Dragons, and HotDQ as the adventure to kick off the AL.</p><p></p><p></p><p>All I'm saying is that if you have an adventure that was designed and intended for league play (emphasizing the need for general shared experiences among groups of players), it's not fair to the product, nor all that accurate, to mark it down for elements of railroading since those elements are required in order to achieve the requirement of the game. Just because you can play the game at home doesn't change the fact that the adventure was designed and intended for the AL. The designers aren't idiots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6376891, member: 15700"] Well, yes it is. However, you can't assume it was designed to be what 4e encounters were. Mearls replied to me himself a few weeks ago in this very forum and said that D&D Encounters for 5e are not going to be like Encounters were for 4e. So this adventure was very much so designed for 5e Encounters. Also, it was the adventure they promoted heavily to kick off the Adventure League. Even if you're not living in the 21st century and didn't seen any of the online promotion, every game store I had been in that participates in Encounters had big posters promoting Tyranny of Dragons, and HotDQ as the adventure to kick off the AL. All I'm saying is that if you have an adventure that was designed and intended for league play (emphasizing the need for general shared experiences among groups of players), it's not fair to the product, nor all that accurate, to mark it down for elements of railroading since those elements are required in order to achieve the requirement of the game. Just because you can play the game at home doesn't change the fact that the adventure was designed and intended for the AL. The designers aren't idiots. [/QUOTE]
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