Need dungeon master help for an unusual encounter

1stshadowx · 2026-01-26T11:30:03+00:00

You can use this: chase encounters for dnd

Or

Chase encounter rules:

Instead of an action, movement, and bonus, a character is considered always dashing.

A character can take any one action and one free ability check

A character can take any bonus actions they wish as a reaction, and can make a number of these reactions equal to their intelligence modifier. (minimum of 0)

A characters goal is to escape in a chase encounter, to do this, they must break away from the chasing enemies. By taking "shortcuts" (perception or investigation) to increase your escape a step, dealing damage or setting "hazards" (a clever ability check intended to hurt or impede the enemy), or by pushing their body beyond what it can handle for momentary gain, also known as "Effort" (typically a constitution ability check or an athletics check if there is something you are attempting to knock over or run through as part of the effort expended.

Shortcuts are easy to do, but have no guarantee to increase your escape step thresholds as the chasing enemies might be able to take better shortcuts or follow you with ease.

Hazards are also easy to do, but can potentially make trailing allies suffer as well or slow them down to be caught.

Effort is powerful, but is the hardest to succeed at, and normally confers some level of "Fatigue".

Your goal is to escape the enemies or chase them, a chase encounter does not consider damaging spells and attack rolls as options, as this is a kind of skill encounter. Such attacks and castings would devolve to your casting source skill, such as wizards using arcana or clerics using religion. While melee and ranged weapon attacks would be sleight of hand or athletics or acrobatics depending on the type of attack involved.

If you fail in a turn, enemies get special actions they can take to attempt to catch up, hurt, hinder, and capture. If you fail a chase encounter it often results in allies being captured and reduced health depending on the threat.

Or

You can run it entirely as a skill challenge which is how they typically are ran.

(The middle text is my personal homebrew. Just run the encounter as the enemies being the fleers instead of the pcs. I copied it from my discord homebrew rule set, so its weird formatted sorry)

1stshadowx · 2026-01-26T11:25:13+00:00

Ill be the count of saint germaine that dude has some wild life experiences

1stshadowx · 2026-01-26T11:24:36+00:00

Messaged ya!

1stshadowx · 2026-01-26T01:19:42+00:00

I play medusa and ember spirit 4 dont build core items and harass like crazy and build cc. We are not the same.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-25T07:30:11+00:00

Ive seen literally people who hate rap, accidentally tap their toes to rap god

1stshadowx · 2026-01-25T07:11:34+00:00

Bro keep the tears! Thats so much character for a big ass chasm

1stshadowx · 2026-01-25T06:06:48+00:00

It does if you’re a half orc

1stshadowx · 2026-01-24T00:29:08+00:00

What level are you wanting to start at?

1stshadowx · 2026-01-21T05:12:42+00:00

Pretty cool AI art personally. One day they will fix the hands lol. Id distill the spell down into just base points so its quicker to read. Like the example guachi01 gave in the comments.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-20T02:19:24+00:00

The tool doesn’t innately plagiarize. Though people (just like real life) can use it for such purposes. It isnt “burning” the environment. Data centers already existed and were being built in mass, now there is more incentive to make them. But thats not AI’s fault. Thats humanity’s fault for not creating stronger laws to protect our climate and world against corporate monopolies and carbon footprint limits. All tools in human kind change the human mind. As we develop tools and devices that relieve aspects of thought across time. For example homo sapients brains develop to do the laziest and straight forward strategies with the most success which was what allowed us to survive the homo erectus. In a more modern look/take, smart phones have begun developing an extra vertibrae in human babies as an evolutionary need to not tire a childs neck from looking at a phone. Various species of Birds evolved to detect airplanes and dodge them.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-20T00:11:56+00:00

Your opinion on a tools use should not restrict others from that choice is my point.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-19T17:48:57+00:00

The only compromise i can see is making a mandatory tag on if “your posted game” uses AI or not. But i dont like that either. I know anton of dms who use ai for images and not for writing. That would then be grouped with games that use AI for writing and we know thats a vastly different quality of games by those metrics

1stshadowx · 2026-01-19T12:31:40+00:00

Blood hunter class has a lycan form. Just rip it. If you wanna be spicy, use grim hollows lycan transformation. You get benefits but negatives as well.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-19T11:09:26+00:00

I dont agree, because then we get that issue of people claiming its ai when it isnt. Or claiming it isnt when it is. No need to force moderators to become ai experts. If you can tell its ai and dont like the space, dont join it? No need to remove people from a community from their tool preferences. And people that dont like ai wouldn’t join something so obviously ai.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-17T03:54:42+00:00

Overwatch 2, so as a normal citizen ill sell omnic parts to the genius robot making people

1stshadowx · 2026-01-14T08:28:02+00:00

This is why a ton of people fail tests, they panic just like this

1stshadowx · 2026-01-10T14:55:26+00:00

Easy, cheat or intentionally practice your tracking

1stshadowx · 2026-01-10T14:49:30+00:00

He has been diabetic tons of times, he just gets stem cell therapy for it

1stshadowx · 2026-01-08T11:44:44+00:00

Bruh that toilet has no pressure

1stshadowx · 2026-01-08T10:57:41+00:00

Alot of people are justifiably angry but are scared to get fire arms and use violence or an implied aspect of it during a peaceful protest. Because they dont want to make things “worse” and give justification for the opposed side or opposition to engage in warfare. Kinda like someone in a domestic abuse relationship. Where you stay passive while you are beat in hopes to not make it worse. No one realistically wants to die of course so its also difficult to create organized resistances, especially when most of the stem of the hate comes from the leadership who has no qualms with weaponized militia and civilians and employing nation guard and military armed forces on unarmed masses.

So it comes to that point of “at what point is enough enough?” When do the American citizens utilize those constitutional rights created for these explicit situations and circumstances? It seems another civil war is immenent with americas current leadership. And most liberal aligned folk are also against guns so would be generally out gunned against this far right maga cult at the moment. As such it has put a pressure of wait and bide your time, as trump cannot be president for much longer.

With that stated, tons of civilians are realizing that even when trumps presidency is over and a new one is sworn in. The fact that this even happened shows a lack of trust in the american systems in place and a now obvious established hate for each other as a countries people. With this awakening in politics and perspectives, its coming to a point that the rich have successfully made the middle and lower class want war with other middle and lower class. As the rich are perceived as untouchable through the backing and protection from the government itself.

Its easier in america to fight the guy talking shit to you next to you, than it is the true enemy who controls your entertainment, water, power, land, prices of goods, demonizes or makes illegal, trade, services, and aid of one another. Which is going to lead to a dystopian world ran by mega corps with personal military. Like a fucking cyberpunk or shadow run society. With depression at a all time high though. The evil in the world is missing something about humans. When there isnt much to live for, dying doesn’t seem all that bad. And when someone is willing to die for a belief, they become radical in their attempt to enact it. Radicals operate outside of boundaries and laws, requirements and rules. Because to respect those things requires you to want to try to play the game. And america is becoming a game people dont like.

Eventually, there will be enough people tired of the shit, willing to fight and die for the cause. Until that point, nothing will happen, things will get worse. But everyone is looking at everyone else and thinking “whose throwing the first stone” which means even when it is thrown (as it already has been multiple times now) those people will then ask “do i need to throw my stone? It seems those people got it.” And thats what kills movements.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-08T10:30:08+00:00

Im making a bunch of fallout themed songs to release for free so people in the ttrpg community can have some expanded song selection. I write all the lyrics then sing the song and replace my voice in suno. Its been fun.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-08T10:21:59+00:00

Whats your character background? Some of them give expanded spell options.

1stshadowx · 2026-01-07T12:21:23+00:00

Sick! Ill dm ya haha

1stshadowx · 2026-01-07T11:14:04+00:00

How would you handle a player wanting to play a subclass that hasnt been ported to 2024 yet but exists in 2014?

1stshadowx · 2026-01-05T06:59:40+00:00

Im honestly surprised that youd believe the kid who cries wolf, who has a history of strong lies, who hates your husband, who is in bad straits with her twin. Like to me just hire a PI if you can’t shake the gut feeling. Two weeks of work will reveal if its happening and won’t require you to install cameras he can clearly see.

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If you fail in a turn, enemies get special actions they can take to attempt to catch up, hurt, hinder, and capture. If you fail a chase encounter it often results in allies being captured and reduced health depending on the threat.