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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6097884" data-attributes="member: 22779">Ok, fair enough, let's go through the other list then.Oh, good, setting wank.  I would miss this.  Why are you railroading me to force me to see this.I would miss these.  Why are you railroading me to force me to find these?I would miss these.  Why are we being railroaded into encounters?  I thought the players had control over the action in your game.And we will meet that faction when we arrive at point B.  Why are we being railroaded into meeting them earlier?And we would lack these resources.  We might even fail.  Such is life.  But, then again, WE the players decided to bull through and not spend time in the desert.  Why are we being railroaded into meeting potential allies?  If we wanted potential allies, shouldn't we be the ones to initiate that action?And, considering that I'm traveling far faster than anything else that isn't flying, since I can make the summoned creature move at a dead run until it dies, then spend 6 seconds and summon another one, I guess we skip over those ambushes.  Again, why are we being railroaded into encounters?IOW, the only reason you have for forcing the group to play this out is to railroad them into encounters.  After all, if they don't play this out and simply hand wave the trip, then all these reasons cease to matter don't they?  The only reason you refuse to hand wave things is because you want to run encounter/scenarios between point A and B.  The players don't want to.  They just want to get to point B, because that's where their goal is.</blockquote>

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