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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8040123" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Tomoachan is not a railroad. You are &quot;forced&quot; to get in as you walk in search of it. Then you can follow the adventure or, in the great cental room, you can take the hole in the ceiling via levitation (and kill the three apes that are sure to attack you). I had a group doing that. They went straight to the top of the temple and avoided about half the adventure itself. A railroad advenwould have prevented just that.And I can imagine Roran the Librarian. Diplomat of the White bear barbarian clan. He's the kind of diplomat with a big club and the club is not a social gathering... Just a few key skills to get with a feat. And if diplomacy fails, a club the size of a man can always maul your point into the brain of the other diplomat...Published adventures are not railroads. Forcing the players into them or preventing them from leaving said adventures is a railroad. The same thing can be said from personal adventures too. The rest is simply DMing. Prepare, know your player, prepare and be ready to improvise a lot. I fully agree with you on the rest of your post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8040123, member: 6855114"] Tomoachan is not a railroad. You are "forced" to get in as you walk in search of it. Then you can follow the adventure or, in the great cental room, you can take the hole in the ceiling via levitation (and kill the three apes that are sure to attack you). I had a group doing that. They went straight to the top of the temple and avoided about half the adventure itself. A railroad advenwould have prevented just that. And I can imagine Roran the Librarian. Diplomat of the White bear barbarian clan. He's the kind of diplomat with a big club and the club is not a social gathering... Just a few key skills to get with a feat. And if diplomacy fails, a club the size of a man can always maul your point into the brain of the other diplomat... Published adventures are not railroads. Forcing the players into them or preventing them from leaving said adventures is a railroad. The same thing can be said from personal adventures too. The rest is simply DMing. Prepare, know your player, prepare and be ready to improvise a lot. I fully agree with you on the rest of your post. [/QUOTE]

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