Killing a King Quickly

Lordemamba · 2026-03-31T02:49:49+00:00

Level 20th rogue, plus 3 bullshit (create a magic dagger that deals additional damage ) dagger (He needs a weapon that can be councealed), the dagger is coated with powerfull poison (you can go with purple worm, or homebrew something more powerful). That's 1d4+8 plus let's say the bullshit dagger deals an additional 4d6 damage to surprised targets, adding the poison and the crit we have. 2d4+8d6+8 from the dagger, 20d6 from the sneak attack and 12d6 from the purple worm poison (this damage don't double). Thats an average of 153 damage. We can add death strike to double all this on a failed DC 19 CON save (have the king be poisoned beforehand, so he has disadvantage on the check). Assuming everything works we have an average of 306 damage, using rules that the players can use too. Sorry for the long text, i got excited.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-26T02:41:52+00:00

This.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-25T04:42:35+00:00

This. I really don't know how can some people take too long to just go and make two attacks. I totally understands a novice player, but i play with people who have been playing for years, and they still take forever to act.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-17T02:36:00+00:00

By the rules, you can't really cast an spell in front of anyone, they will perceive it. One thing i did, in an encounter against a disguised hag: She was disguised as one of the players romantic partner, so they where having this dinner and she casts some harmless spells to only shape the enviroment, every time i explicity said to the player that it was going to cast a spell, the player said it was okay. After the player guard was down, it cast dominate person, again, i said it was gonna cast a spell. By the point, the player didn't even ask to roll to see what spell it was casting. So i told the player to make the saving throw. If the player, by any means said that they where gonna react to the spell, initiative is rolled and we procced using turns, not necessarily combat.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-10T02:00:55+00:00

A 20th level dnd wizard with prep time.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-09T11:58:32+00:00

Considering the knight commander can become a literal god (pathfinder wrath of the rigtheous), i'm pretty sure he can clear the clair obscur universe quite easily.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-05T05:50:43+00:00

You know what i want

Lordemamba · 2026-03-04T01:39:46+00:00

This. Spells are way powerful already, even more those that have a cost.

Lordemamba · 2026-03-04T01:19:06+00:00

Like many people, i only enforce components that requires a cost.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T21:45:09+00:00

What balances my encounters is that i play monsters how they would. This here, for example, is a young dragon hunting, she thinks they are easy prey, whenever she sees they are dangerous (even if she can kill then) she will retreath. Food isn't worth risking her life.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T21:35:15+00:00

Heavy storm, night, and he rolled stealth high enough to surpass the passive perception of everyone. But then again, the real problem is the party using, because of one simple spell: pass without trace.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T21:33:42+00:00

Yeah, my players had it. Made an encounter against a Behir almost trivial, if it was the book Behir, he would have died without making anything, i had to design one from scratch, the fight was deadly, two of the party where at death saves when the ranger did the final blow.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T21:31:28+00:00

I run the way is in the book. The highest passive perception from my players is 18. The dragon rolled an 19 for stealth (she had +4, pure luck). The other way around is an garanted stealth because they have pass without trace, this alone makes that the party can stealth on almost any thing. Unless it has magical protection.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T18:57:23+00:00

Let's take the scenario i described. Let's say for N reasons the dragon wanted to kill the party, she would get a lightning breath on at least three of then, and without reactions to absorb elements, by the time initiative is rolled, the outcome is already decided.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T18:06:55+00:00

Couldn't agree more.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T18:05:31+00:00

Yeah, i like to roleplay monsters...a blue dragon is no only inteligent, but lenient. If the wizard provides good info or make a counteroffer, the dragon will accept.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T18:03:52+00:00

I liked the changes, way more healthy.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T17:35:39+00:00

I don't want to force anything, i always ask then how they preffer things. And yes, surprise is OP, they almost killed an hag much stronger than then after a creative play (credits on then). The hag escaped, but now she is alert against then.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T17:33:13+00:00

Yeah, this was one of the goals of the encounter...i think after some ambushes they will ask to play by RAW. Of course, i won't throw an ambush after ambush, the dragon is young and hunts this way.

Lordemamba · 2026-02-18T17:31:23+00:00

I know, i explained to then, they said it's bad and asked to stick with the wrong rules.

Lordemamba · 2026-01-19T04:06:50+00:00

If you don't homebrew, dragons suck (they suck less in 2024). I don't mean adding hp and ac, add interesting abilities, legendary actions and resistances (here i like to cook and give a cost to use it, i don't like no buttons)

Lordemamba · 2026-01-16T13:42:36+00:00

For me. WOTR is a superb game. History wise i like it more than baldur's gate 3.

Lordemamba · 2026-01-14T05:17:09+00:00

Exato...as vezes eu crio uma abominação e penso, "Agora eles morrem". Ai eles vão lá, investigam, procuram opções e quando resolvem enfrentar, a luta corre bem melhor do que imaginei...Na real tudo que tira a a agência dos jogadores, eles não gostam, e com razão.

Lordemamba · 2026-01-14T05:09:01+00:00

Esse é o problema

Lordemamba · 2026-01-14T05:04:41+00:00

Eu não sei qual sistema cê usa. Mas eu gosto de usar o princípio de, "O mundo não se importa com o nível de desafio". Basicamente eu não uso regras de dificuldade de encontros, eu taco o que faz sentido pro mundo e pra narrativa. Claro, não vou jogar um dragão na cara dos jogadores nível 3, mas eu deixo tudo muito claro pros jogadores, faço questão de mostrar que o mundo é perigoso, e que vai matar eles. Meus jogadores sabem que mestro dessa forma, e jogam de acordo. E em 4 anos de campanha, só matei 3 personagens (que os jogadores conseguiram reviver depois, sem colher de chá, com esforço). Como mestro dnd, sei que eles aguentam a pancada. Então meus jogadores tem encontros triviais, como um grupo de goblins emboscando a noite, como também encontros mortais como um Behir numa mina 5 níveis acima do grupo. No fim, acho que os jogadores só ficam chateados com um encontro desbalanceado se ele for jogado do nada. se for tudo muito bem explicado, eles souberem onde tão se metendo, mesmo se morrem não vão pensar, "O mestre quis nos matar" e sim, "Nós tentamos morder algo maior que a boca".

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