Is RAILROADING Actually GOOD? - D&D 5e
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Are your players ruining your Dungeons and Dragons game by completely throwing off your INSANE plot? Maybe it's time to railroad! Or is it? JoJo and Josh dive deep into this controversial topic.
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How is fixing dramatic decisions any different than railroading? Like limiting narrative scope is required, so to what degree we expand/contract that scope seems pedantic, no? I'd like to know more about what exactly a session looks like. Especially the dude running campaigns on the right. (one shots are a totally different beast.). thanks for the video!
Hey there! Dude on the right here. I think ultimately "railroading" is inherently subjective, and it's based on player response. How much we limit narrative scope is based on exactly how much limiting is needed to enhance the game. I think often we hesitate to limit things at all in pursuit of not "railroading" when in fact limitations and stakes are exactly what our game needs.
appreciate your comment so much, Eric. thank you for engaging with the content. It means the world to both of us.
- JoJo
Lots of good points here, i’d love to have some longer episodes to listen to, though i know that’s more taxing on you guys to sit down for an hour vs cutting it into several videos.
I think i railroad quite a bit, i know where the players have said they want their stories to go so ill make sure that the things that need to happen for that to work happen. That being said, it’s always disguised as choice. back to your example with the hallway and locked doors, there could be 4 doors in there, but the first 2 they check are locked and all 4 go to the same location until they decide to check out more than one door.
railroading and guiding the session are two different things, but i think that the former gets a bad rap; it’s one thing to straight up say “no, we’re going here because i prepped it” and another thing to guide the story where it needs to go. You could call them both railroading
While I think there are a lot of issues in the terminology behind "railroading" (having a BBEG places you on the railroad spectrum imo) --- your advice to skip everything that is not a meaningful decision is really good and I think could warrant its own video. Best of luck on the videos to come!
No. Railroading is when the GM treats the PCs as NPCs or otherwise gives them no choice in facing a challenge or how to face a challenge. Just presenting the PCs with a challenge or goal or BBEG is not railroading. That’s ridiculous.
I don’t see any point in having this discussion without defining railroading.
google it my dude