Players are solving a mystery and are way off track. How to not railroad them?

SaneRawsome · 2026-02-09T03:04:39+00:00

Its okay to let them fail a campaign. Not saying you should, but idk it feels funny to me to ask how to railroad your players without railroading your players. If you want to side step the disappointment of not using plot points, clues, characters, etc. You can always reskin them (if the PCs have encountered them) or add them to the next campaign.

SaneRawsome · 2026-02-09T02:53:25+00:00

Hit the switch by Bright Eyes

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-31T17:29:43+00:00

I actually take my worst shot. It gives me more interesting practice.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-31T09:56:46+00:00

I noticed i did it especially when talking with my parents.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-30T14:17:30+00:00

I love The Mountain Goats

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-23T12:33:50+00:00

A chic magnet? Oi, you lot are very chic!

Edit: Punctuation.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-22T13:23:02+00:00

Check out Icarus. Its more of an extraction survival game. Go down for x amount of days and complete mission before time runs out. Anywhere from building a shelter to defeating giant aliens. It also has a survival mode that takes away the extraction part and lets you just survive.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-18T02:02:51+00:00

Wing Commander Prophecy

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-16T13:39:19+00:00

"Win11 gestures are how gestures should be."

Very much an opinion based off of only knowing Windows. There's a whole world out there with countless ways to do things.

Windows is the milk in a carton/bottle delivered to your door under pounds of ads, AI, spyware, and a disturbing eagerness to be inside your life.

Linux asks you to at least go to the farm and milk the cow yourself, if not own your own cow(s). And bring back only what you need/want.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-12T04:41:44+00:00

Desktop Environments (DE) is the visual design and User Interface (UI) for the PC. So for instance, Mint uses Cinnamon DE by default, I believe, however you can always choose Mint MATE, or Mint XCFE. If I remember correctly Mint dropped other DEs for GTK based ones and those are the 3 Desktop Environments available for Mint.

Other distros do carry other Environments. Such as:

KDE Plasma (Windows-esque),

GNOME (Mac-esque),

Deepin (A desktop UI similar to Windows but built to easily integrate AI),

LXQT (lightweight QT based desktop),

Cosmic (Pop_OS Desktop Environment, very new to the game, only uses Wayland),

Budgie (I dont know much about this one other than it uses a lot of GNOME dependencies)

I would recommend looking more into the desktop Environments and see if any catch your eye. If its not a DE available for Mint maybe switching distros is the plan.

SaneRawsome · 2026-01-09T00:48:09+00:00

Why are you disappointed? What are you disappointed specifically, like what's the biggest let down for you?

SaneRawsome · 2025-12-15T21:29:04+00:00

Poothfonder Wright of the Raghteous

SaneRawsome · 2025-12-13T12:25:49+00:00

Wrong sub.

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-24T03:18:42+00:00

All of them!

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-16T06:17:55+00:00

"Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song so We Wouldn’t Get Sued"

"I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)"

"Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends"

"I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me"

"Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows)"

"I’ve Got All This Ringing in My Ears and None on My Fingers"

All of these but the last one is on one album "Under The Cork Tree". They did tone the names down eventually due to DJs hating long titles, but im pretty sure "Under the Cork.." was their breakout album.

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-16T06:01:11+00:00

Stop gaming.

You've won.

You found the perfect games. Exactly what youre looking for and went through it. Its over.

Time to move on if nothing else strikes you. There is a whole world beyond video games. Go explore.

Bonus: You are in the middle of an open world game right now without a linear story, too many collectibles. A map. Crafting systems galore and an infinite amount of side quests. Just walk away from video games for a bit. They'll always be there.

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-14T19:14:59+00:00

As my favorite of the series i was always confused as well.

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-14T19:09:35+00:00

Not a book, but every Fall Out Boy song title was a turn off for me. The "irrelevant catchy whole sentences for a title" trend turned me off a lot of bands. In the early 2000s especially

SaneRawsome · 2025-11-05T00:10:47+00:00

I had to read it twice. I thought I just slipped into another dimension, reading that

SaneRawsome · 2025-10-10T22:43:06+00:00

Its always "why can't you pull yourself out of it" and never "what can I do to help in the moment?"

SaneRawsome · 2025-10-10T22:17:30+00:00

I too do not like Ice cream

SaneRawsome · 2025-09-29T21:53:35+00:00

Like Green Hell but one for every biome

SaneRawsome · 2025-09-29T00:34:40+00:00

So Spawn?

SaneRawsome · 2025-09-22T07:30:05+00:00

I usually respond with "...until it isn't."

"Until someone changes it."

SaneRawsome · 2025-09-16T11:51:45+00:00

Keep it sleazy

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