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Here is an example to chew on: A BBEG casts command on a PC and the PC fails the save. the command is Flee. The PC is in a big open room, with a lava pit 25 feet away, a bottomless pit 15 feet away, and a open exit door 35 feet away. Which way must the PC flee?

The character or creature has to do the things, but they still have choice in how.

For sure. I think at least some portion of GM railroading comes from insecurity: that is, being uncertain about being able to flow with out of the box player thinking. This can really only be mitigated by experience: the more you GM, the more confident you become improvising and following the...

Yeah, I love Legal Eagle, but that video was very obviously meant to capitalize on a niche concern and might not have bene the most throroughly reseached.

The spell does not say anything about "panic." Creatures and characters affected should, IMO, be able to use their brains in choosing how to follow the rules of the spell. If the spell says you can't use any action other than move, though, that creates an issue.

Many folks -- Morris included, but I can't tag him because he has blocked me -- have made the argument that you can use the 5.1 and/or 5.2 SRD in CC to recreate pretty much anything in the 3.5 SRD via CC. I am not a lawyer and I don't pretend to understand copyright law, but it seems reasonable...

This is juest my personal take: As a writer, I would rather play a CRPG than play a solo game. I have tried a few and what it feels like is writing a novel outline with hekp. I am not interested in that. I can just write a novel if I want. If I want to play a game, I prefer the format of a...

I don't discount it, I just never had the issue. But Champions 4E is still the best 4th edition of any game that ever made it that far (yeah, GURPS, I'm calling you out).

This discussion raises an interesting question: what qualifies something as a mega corporation, particularly in cyberpunk?

I was saying they weren't curated, just like the E-shop, hence sarcastic "seal of QUANTITY."

I have no idea what you are on about here. Companies get to say who plays in their sandbox. hat might suck, but it is true.

Maybe you need to reread my post?

DMs Guild definitely seems to operate under the "Offocial Seal of Quantity" paradigm.

That's the blood of all my PCs.

Does "furthest" matter here? The spell doesn't require that, just that you use the fastest method of movement. I suppose once could argue that since speed equals distance over time, and time is constant (6 seconds) you must go the direction that allows you to.move the farthest. But now we are...

Most of this is them protecting their IP and trying to sell D&D. I.thought you meant real hostility, like leveraging control over distribution channels or trying to trademark or patent things already in the public domain. Telling people they can't use your trademark without a license hardly...

Wait, I thought the argument was that cyberpunk was bigger than just one trope.

Give some examples of actively hostile to other games.

I would argue that is just future dystopia. That's a different genre (or maybe an umbrella genre that encompasses cyberpunk). 1984 is not cyberpunk, which is essentially what you are arguing.

This thread reminds me that WotC kept making noises about putting previous SRDs under CC, but has never actually made any movement in that direction. I would go so far as to suggest they were always lying and never intended to put the 3.0 or 3.5 SRD into CC.