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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8413233" data-attributes="member: 7032025">You mean that a single railroad with 10 encounters that can only be done in a certain orders and in which what the PCs done has no effect on the plot is not more railroady than a city adventure where the PCs can go wherever they want in what order they want, and the same with a complete plane to play with ? Even if you respect the adventure to the letter, at least you have two different paths for a limited section of the adventure.Not really, no, Dragon Heist is level 1-5 and Descent into Avernus level 1-15. This has nothing to do with railroading, by the way, but it goes to show that 75% of Dragon Heist is wasted on any given run of the adventure because of the four seasons, knowing that no one is going to paly two different seasons anyway.It's more than this, it's totally fixed right from the start, the only possibility is total failure at one of the steps, but as long as you don't fail completely, it's complete blank slate for the next episode.So yes, maybe with a huge amount of work you can do something else with it, but you will always end up wasting 75% of the published material. Whereas I did some work on DiA, and created a complete open city adventure at the start and a complete sandbox while into Avernus with minimal effort and very little waste.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8413233, member: 7032025"] You mean that a single railroad with 10 encounters that can only be done in a certain orders and in which what the PCs done has no effect on the plot is not more railroady than a city adventure where the PCs can go wherever they want in what order they want, and the same with a complete plane to play with ? Even if you respect the adventure to the letter, at least you have two different paths for a limited section of the adventure. Not really, no, Dragon Heist is level 1-5 and Descent into Avernus level 1-15. This has nothing to do with railroading, by the way, but it goes to show that 75% of Dragon Heist is wasted on any given run of the adventure because of the four seasons, knowing that no one is going to paly two different seasons anyway. It's more than this, it's totally fixed right from the start, the only possibility is total failure at one of the steps, but as long as you don't fail completely, it's complete blank slate for the next episode. So yes, maybe with a huge amount of work you can do something else with it, but you will always end up wasting 75% of the published material. Whereas I did some work on DiA, and created a complete open city adventure at the start and a complete sandbox while into Avernus with minimal effort and very little waste. [/QUOTE]

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