Dragon Talk: Sage Advice on Encounter Building, 1/15/18
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024
- Jeremy Crawford discusses building encounters, challenge ratings, and creating memorable battles for your players with host Greg Tito in a Sage Advice segment. -- Watch live at / dnd
I too have moved to using OneNote to organize myself, so good to hear others are using it.
I'd say that the correct amount of encounters for the adventuring day is "enough to make a fun challenge for the players". If that's one big monster, many smaller fights, a bunch of social challenges or puzzles, or a single long tense negotiation varies - I just try to keep an eye on how spent the players are and either pile on or hold back to keep things interesting. :)
Thanks for the great tips for DMing encounters! i'll implement terrain difficulties (like lava or gushing wind) and time-based scenarios that can trigger additional advantage or disadvantage during encounters to keep my adventurers on their feet. I really like doing surprise encounters even if the monster is weak. Doing surprise can wither down even the strongest adventurers hehe lol! Also, forcing adventurers to blow spell slots with it! I hated the jaculi before when i was the adventurer. Lastly, bringing in hordes of monsters to push adventures back to there tracks.
What are some of your favorite "surprise" monsters?
You are the best Jeremy. So clear, so knowledagable and also so funny!
Schrodinger's Hitpoints... Greg Tito, you fuckin' genius! You may have just invented the greatest D&D mechanic since 5e.
I love these videos!
I know this is for 5th but the premise is good for 3rd on.
How would you retro the 5e DMG to 3/3.5/pathfinder?
+ + + S P E L L J A M M E R + + +
CR rating ? When in doubt go traditional , the ticked off Gary Gygax way , go full Tomb of Horrors !
*DM Help Needed!*
Hey guys, I would love some help. My players are currently travelling through the high forest, and I wanted to give them a Fey encounter as a “test of glamour”
As it’s going to work, the players are going to have to participate in a vogue fashion show for the amusement of the fey before they let them pass- can anyone give me any advice for this?
Edit: Extra information:
I was thinking of three “Phases”- the first is a catwalk, the second I’m not too sure about, but the third is a chess-board dance-floor style battle
In encounters like this, I like when the players make the work for me. Get the characters on a stage or something and have the fey say: "Impress us".
Carlos Vazquez Cotero oh you beautiful beautiful man
Round two is “Feywild’s got talent”
Your players clearly want something very different from their D&D than me and mine do! Fair play: some groups enjoy funhouse stuff with anachronisms, some don't. I'd choke on that sort of element, and some people will lap it up. I imagine you must know your own players.
endie99 Haha you’re right- we’re a really casual group of uni students who are playing through SKT, so casual in fact that I’m actually one of two DMs for the group who take different sessions.
That’s not to say we don’t do gritty realism or whatever- we’ve had a fair making of death by hill giant and Bheur hags trying to starve towns, but at the same time we also just appreciate a really silly game sometimes where the fey challenge people to dance battles, and we enjoy both a whole lot!