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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8715804" data-attributes="member: 67338">so last night I had (more or less) scripted events happening... is that a railroad? The City the PCs have been in was going to get a visit from a character I have foreshadowed... a dwarven artificer that is powerful and influenceable not in dwarven lands but human ones. I knew he was bringing a tank (a horseless carriage with a radiant gun on top), but the PCs had no way to know that before game.   The PCs are aligned with and sometimes work for the local thieves guild... and the guy in charge there was pre scripted to want all the info he could on the tank. I knew when he saw it he was going to ask the PCs to get a look inside it and find out what they can.   I also knew it was coming with a handful of guards and a weird human kid that travels with the dwarf... but also a Knight (a human knight serving a dwarven king) just happened upon this and is traveling now with them... this knight is a JERK. He is also WELL more powerful then the PCs... like if i simulate a combat I could see him if he gets lucky TPKing the party, and since they hang out in a gambling hall (that is a front for the thieves guild) I planed on having him come in, be a bit jerky to some NPCs gamble a bit, then call a local bard NPC out for cheating... I even took a song lyric as some pre written dialog when a town guard (or maybe a PC) tried to stop him from getting aggressive (You better check your ego, you don't want your lip to react, you don't want to see my hand where my hilt is at...)I also had notes incase they went a few diffrent ways out of town even though last week we all said we were staying in town a bit... maybe they would only hear about all this when they got back?knowing I had all of this planed, the Dwarf artificer the 13 year old girl(at least looks like) that travels with him, 1 of his 4 guards, the knight, the head of the theives guild, the local alchimist/apothacary, and the town mayor (that no one in game like) all have there own goals and I have an outline of what they will try to do for the 3 days the dwarf is there...is that railroading?</blockquote>

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