Do you feel that the PCs actually pretty smart, but the DM is still making jokes like they aren’t? Or is it some of the PCs are using “oh I’m dumb” as an excuse to derail gameplay and ruin ingame plans?
Do you feel that the PCs actually pretty smart, but the DM is still making jokes like they aren’t? Or is it some of the PCs are using “oh I’m dumb” as an excuse to derail gameplay and ruin ingame plans?
I think people have lots of definitions for what constitutes railroading. I personally don’t think anything in the meme constitutes going off the rails.
In my view, if you build or plan the next session based on where you think they’re gonna go next and what they seem like they want to do as players, and then someone goes “Well can I actually just make a 90-degree turn off the road to the city that we’re talked about going to last week into these random woods instead of engaging with the hours of content you made for us,” you aren’t railroading them for going “sure, but I’ll have to pause the session here so I can put the time and prep into this that you deserve as players, or we play Dnd today.”
Matt Colville has a great vid on this, but I can’t remember its title. I think he’s done a few videos that talked about railroading.
The GM has the power to present a heist, but unless the GM is really railroady, the players have the power to make it a ransom, a demolition job or just ignore everything and join the circus.
This doesn’t sound contradictory to “planning a heist”. I guess I just took it to mean that the setup was a heist and that the punchline was that they had little control over the tone during actual play. I feel like ransoms, a demolition job, or joining in the circus fall within the “heist” aesthetic and narrative.
About a year. I found it after cleaning up an event. Took it home, soaked it for 24 hours, and now it’s covered in stickers.
okay buts that’s actually fucking genius
Well hopefully some people here will see it and subscribe and it’ll build.
such a good trick. Used it for years.
This would really light a fire under corporation’s asses to adapt for climate change…
This is one of the most creative ones so far
Is there a popular /c/trees anywhere yet?
um, it’s not supposed to hurt for either 😳
You this fun with every silly hypothetical?
I think I’d just charge it constantly at every chance.
That could be deafening in certain public spaces.
life in winter anyways
This is the ideal. I think a problem also comes up because I think a lot of people (DMs included) feel like “peak Dnd” is when you could in theory, go anywhere and do anything your party wants, and you just need to review few quick notes and be ready to go.