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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive... -
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Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...
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Ppemerton reacted to soviet's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Nothing you like has changed even slightly. Your books still exist. What's happened is that something new has come out. You're not... -
payn replied to the thread Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?.Static baby! -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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If railroading as a term is kind of fraught, isn't "GM force" just as challenging? I don't know what boundary I would draw around "GM... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Sure it was. One act of railroading is still railroading. It's just a less-bad kind. This all feels a bit "Do they give a nobel prize...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?.Scenario 1: Two characters walk up to a cliff together. One character is level 1, the other is level 10. The cliff is described as being... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I mean, if you as a GM frame a situation such that there is exactly one solution, you kinda laid down the tracks already, right?
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static? with Like.
Scaling DCs are design malpractice. They can serve no purpose other than rank illusionism; if you don't want the PC's chances of success... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
My sense of railroading is based less on agency and more on the use of GM force. I think that linear adventure design is fine and I'm...
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hawkeyefan reacted to MGibster's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
In a few months I'll be running a Delta Green campaign, and in this campaign the player characters will be marked by a cosmic entity...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Angus MacDeth's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
That sounds a lot like the approach to Culture in Level Up (or A5e), which has already been mentioned. A5e separates Culture from... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Ranger Identity Patch (+).One of the Protaganists of the ASOIAF & GOT Series. Ranger Commander Medium armor Stealth Tracking Wolf Companion with nonverbal... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Angus MacDeth's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
Wait... Why be coy? Are we not allowed to mention ACKS II by name (which I'm assuming is the game in question)? As far as I'm...
