I gave my 8 players a Condorcet poll for which game I should run next. Their main gripe was a Condorcet poll sounded complicated (it wasn’t).
Kevin Crawford’s “Without Number” games swept the podium (Stars, Cities, Worlds) knocking D&D to fourth place.
The real big table might be a factor. Combat is just so much faster.
Oh, I don’t let the fickle dice tell me when to give a hint or twenty. Nat 1’s come aplenty when you gate-keep crucial information on a die roll.
Only thing that worked was jettisoning the players who torpedoed campaigns for whatever reason.
Nah. Basic was way deadlier.
You can be the first type, and some players will still see you as the second.
Like, they attack the king’s castle for no reason and are upset the guards don’t lie down and die, then refuse to surrender when things are entirely hopeless and they’re offered mercy. Such a mean DM!
Had me until your last sentence.
It’s always going to be mixed, to some degree. The challenge is making it work anyway.
It’s even better when the DM for you!
I ran 2 tables in 4E, but when 5E came out they never wanted to go back.
It all came down to keeping track of all the powers, nobody liked that. They also hoarded their encounter and daily powers, rarely using them (and hoarding encounter powers doesn’t make a lot of sense).
I was a little disappointed because the one table was about to hit their paragon paths, which seemed like fun, and the players seemed excited for. It’s a concept I wouldn’t mind seeing in a new game – it was a little like choosing a subclass at 10th level.
Rebel shareholders such as Alta Fox have been touting the radical concept of investing in the business, creating good products, and selling them.
You know, instead of screwing up relationships with long-term business partners, sending hired heavies to their fans’ houses, and driving their customers to their competition.
So crazy it just might work.
A group of my players brought this up. I let them know that was fine, but the monsters would be able to return the favor.
We decided “the weave” determines the angle of squares (no diagonals).
Yep, this is basically the “Evil is the Absence of Good” argument, and you could do way worse.
Goth girls are drow.
That’s the DM’s wife.
Why not just you Elvish for Elvish?
Trick as old as the game Wizardry.
It’s often better than making them fight their way back up.
If you think they’ll be too simple then it should only take your players about 20-30 minutes to solve.
That being 15 minutes to tell stupid jokes, and 15 more to burn down the building and leave.
Ares, the God of Special Operations.
Or step it up a notch. (And ya gotta wait until this comes up in conversation.)
Session 1: My Chaos Paladin tells party his goddess’ name is Beth.
Session 2: Find magic sword, name it Beth.
Session 3: Tell party my goddess wants to be called Kate now. (Chaotics, ya know?)
Session 4: Explain that the goddess is OK if I still call my sword Beth, but I should name the next one Kate.
Session 5: Utter a vow of enmity: “For Kate’s sake I stick my last Beth at thee!”
Really the DM ought to toss out names, reacting to the actions of the party, and just see what sticks.
My NPC’s will start recognizing the party by their recent exploits, such as “The Heroes of Phandelver” — or “The Butchers of Phandalin,” as the case may be.
If the players want to “rebrand” the party, that’s just another quest goal. Always attainable, but you can’t murder-hobo your way to being beloved by the countryfolk.
One PC I play is one of “The Orange Cart Heroes” (the DM’s invention) after a minor but very public encounter. That’s fun. It doesn’t matter that our later exploits ought to be more noteworthy.
The meme is right: Asking the players to name their team typically ends up like the end of Mystery Men where every idea is worse than the last. The good idea comes from the journalist talking to them.
True Polymorph’s duration is “until dispelled” if you concentrate for an hour. (That’s hidden in the spell description.)
You’re not dead when you’re petrified, either, which can lead to some pretty interesting exploits, rules-as-written.
Petrified creatures count as creatures, not objects, so rules-as-written you can determine if a statue is a petrified creature by trying to target it with a spell that requires a creature for a target.
With the cantrip Poison Spray, you can check for petrified creatures without using spell slots or risking damaging the creature, since it would be immune to poison while petrified.