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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9468177" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Response to the OP:No, didn't use any hard railroads*, and whilst there was some cherry picking as to which rules to actually use (e.g. we ignored weapon speeds and the weapon type vs armour tables as slowing the game down too much) I don't recall fudging. Players cheating when rolling ability scores was a big problem though.What we did do is mostly play modules, and single adventures from White Dwarf. And when I did run a campaign we started at level 10. I don't recall ever taking 1st level characters through more than a single adventure.*Well, there is the start of Hidden Shrine, which I ran a couple of times, but that was a tournament module, and justified by the narrative. When I ran it in 5e, I set it up so that the party didn't need to fall down the hole, but they fell down it anyway.I do get the impression that this level of hard railroading was very common in 90s 2nd edition Ravenloft modules, but I had stopped playing D&amp;D by then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9468177, member: 6906155"] Response to the OP: No, didn't use any hard railroads*, and whilst there was some cherry picking as to which rules to actually use (e.g. we ignored weapon speeds and the weapon type vs armour tables as slowing the game down too much) I don't recall fudging. Players cheating when rolling ability scores was a big problem though. What we did do is mostly play modules, and single adventures from White Dwarf. And when I did run a campaign we started at level 10. I don't recall ever taking 1st level characters through more than a single adventure. *Well, there is the start of Hidden Shrine, which I ran a couple of times, but that was a tournament module, and justified by the narrative. When I ran it in 5e, I set it up so that the party didn't need to fall down the hole, but they fell down it anyway. I do get the impression that this level of hard railroading was very common in 90s 2nd edition Ravenloft modules, but I had stopped playing D&D by then. [/QUOTE]

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