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How do you make your combat encounters more exciting?
High stakes? Reward? Unusual terrain?
>>44297970
You could try giving cool descriptions and not only saying "You hit the orc for 8 damage." Mark.
Make your enemies do something other than hack and cast spells.
Make them knock your party over, make them try and disarm them or use the environment.
I once ran a one shot of DnD5E for a friend, was only him playing. He fought two goblins as his first meaningful encounter.
Because he allowed the two goblins to strafe and circle around him, one of them went from behind and tried to hold him while the other got some easy shanks in.
Now, in terms of mechanics all that happened was he failed a STR saving throw to break out of the grapple, got a reduced...
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>>44297970
Make the enemies do smart shit that fucks up the party's shit to some degree
What are game design or even adventure design concepts that used to be around but aren't anymore? We have a lot of people into OSR type games, but even those games use modern concepts with a slight twist on them. What actual design elements have we outright lost and never use anymore?
>>44297830
Bad ones usually. There's a reason THAC0 is dead and I'd wager the same applies to any other extinct mechanic.
>>44297830
Maybe dismemberment rules. A lot of the games I've played lately haven't had ways to cripple an enemy and run away, they were just walking life bars that don't go down until they reach zero hit points.
>>44297830
>you find a magical fountain
>the water loses its effect if removed from the room where the fountain is
>there's no way to find the water magic property without drinking it
>you're feeling lucky, punk? well, do you?
![[TR-8R A.K.A TRAITOR].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cJDQYB4.jpg "[TR-8R A.K.A TRAITOR].jpg")
Stat him!
Cool as fuck/10
>>44297739
Large Magical Beast
>>44297739
>that one guy who plays a normal character in a party of special snowflakes
always the best
"Someone else can do the pasta" edition
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what's the latest version of Slut Life look like?
>>44297610
You are charged with restoring D&D to its former glory. The company intends to do this buy reprinting millions of books, and supporting it with a strong advertising campaign. However, you must pick only ONE edition of D&D (Pathfinder does not count as that belongs to the competitor). That edition will be the only edition (along with ALL the expansion material) that gets reprinted, sold, and advertised. All other editions of D&D will be declared obsolete, and if anyone ever tries to publish material in the "outlawed" editions they will have the shit sued...
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Edition War arguments incoming.
How practical is a mutagenic virus that only mutates humans into koalas?
>>44296768
Depends on the setting
>>44296768
I thought such a thing already existed in Australia?
Well, impossible, for a start.
But that aside, depending on how contagious it is and how fast its effects, it could mean the quick death of most of the human race, save for those who can find eucalyptus trees before becoming full koalas.
