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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at... -
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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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Maxperson reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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I mean truthfully, there are so few bad players (especially when grouped with other good players) and so few DMs, that this is argument... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.So we should thus roll out the red carpet and bend over backwards to help them be jerks, rather than lift a finger to do better? No... -
FrogReaver reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
While I'm not sure I'd do that one in any case, that runs into the problem with a game that has strong baked in elements to show the... -
Hriston reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
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Mannahnin reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I will sometimes throw in hidden doors to secret chambers with loot, it's all bonus material though and doesn't really affect the... -
Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I agree with all of that 100%. I think the only difference is the extent to which we rely on random chance to "find stuff".
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Maxperson replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.There are two assumptions you are making in your response that get things wrong. First, the failure in world building wasn't that the...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.How is that a railroad? I think this is a prime example of confusing things one doesn’t like for railroading.
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Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I don't understand why you describe using randomness as "setting logic" rather than "game rules". There isn't a miniature stochastic...
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NI'm thinking about mechanics to unfreeze the narrative in D&D. Ie, some creature's turn comes. The creature tries to do something...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Well, having a penalty is by definition a low score. And so far as where the line is, it's IMO a conversation, not an ironclad rule. The... -
AI remember watching Chris Perkins run Curse of Strahd on YouTube with Dice Camera Action. Such a privilege to get to watch a writer DM...
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Mannahnin reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
This isn't a Fighter-only problem. While the Fighter does have a rather anemic skill list, Backgrounds exist that allow someone to gain...
