In a one-shot, you can’t afford the players taking an unexpected turn. So, make sure that all encounters have a clear path forward with no deviations. If you have extra time on your hands, you can absolutely create branching paths, but they should all have the same outcome: the dif...
I'm designing this system to not make wilderness long resting a death sentence, just impractical enough that the party wants to sleep in the nearest tavern or plan more carefully before adventuring. I'll also post the link to the whole document if people would like to comm...
How can I design encounters that appeal more to stealth based haracters and are fun for me tu run? I'm currently running a levels 1 to 20 campaign with my friends, and one of them is a Ninja (Pathfinder's class using the Basic Rogue Template). Functionally is pretty much the same,...
These environments give you maps, prewritten NPCs with backstories that you can shape into motives, and even combat encounters if that’s the kind of murder mystery you want to run. Handling Player Characters in Murder Mysteries Artist: LIVIA PRIMA The big difference between reading a murder my...
And, exchange theorists agree with Emerson (1972,1981) that negotiations and exchange rarely occur in isolate encounters. They thusconsider situations in which a given network structure defines matches betweenpairs of bargaining partners (Cook et al. 1983) and attribute exchange outcomes indyads to ...
The system (particularly in 3.0+) is balanced so that player resources (HP, magic, items, etc) should be at a certain point, and encounters of a given level should deplete those resources at a certain rate. In theory, to force players to run, all you have to do is present their ...
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While other groups dislike encounters for the sake of encounters and prefer every encounter to have narrative importance. If the players want to feel cool, the DM should "shoot the monk" - design the encounter in a way that lets the players use their abilities. Enemy tactics that rely on ...
If one side would always win, how could this encounter be changed in order to be more balanced? Some clarification on the rules: so far into the campaign there is no homebrew, and the only optional rule we are using is a grid rule. dnd-5e-2014 encounter-design npc Share Follow ...
You could take a look at the dungeons boss encounters in MMORPGs. Since the developpers make a lot of research in order to make the fight challenging, and yet feasible by a well balanced team, I think there is a lot of inspiration to take there, and there is even inspiration to take ...