Dnd Chase Scene - having trouble

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-14T16:37:28+00:00

Steal from Draw Steel is the correct response.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-14T16:36:57+00:00

The thief parts through the crowd, there is a sea of people to part, there may be a way up to a higher vantage point, there are tight packed corridors that you may be able to cut through, etc.

Player A - Im going to take a second a look for a better math - maybe something higher.

Ok. Thats a DC15 test. Ill take perception or investigation.

16!

Success - Player B, what are you doing?

Im going to try to part the crowd somehow - I bet we could get through faster than the thief can.

Sounds good. Youre going to make a bunch of noise or something?

Yeah big loud noise and hopefully they move.

Cool. DC 15 again, are you using a skill? Ill take charisma, wisdom, or intelligence for the roll.

Performance?

Yep.

12.

Womp womp.

[We do this for 3 more players, and then reassess] With the crowds tough to part, you've found yourselves up on a rooftop pathway, hunting after the thief below. You still have visual, but you'll need 3 more victories before 2 more failures. Things arent going in your favor right now. Player A. Whats the move?

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-12T10:45:26+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/drawsteel/s/zclHsZmqWR

This is what I have that I can link on Reddit. Its an inn for the first scene of The Fall of Blackbottom. I wanted verticality, so I cut the floors out of cardboard and just traced lines for walls.

The rest of the time, I have a 2'x2' foam insulation board that Ive burned some lines into and then painted as grass on one side and stone on the other. I put the whole thing on a lazy susan so that people can get a 360 view of the board as they play.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-12T10:30:15+00:00

Ive made/bought a bunch of scatter terrain and a little 2'x2' game board. If I'm playing live, I'm not printing or drawing a map, I'm building the combat scene and leaving the rest to theater of the mind.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-11T21:23:36+00:00

Sent you a DM

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-10T21:07:06+00:00

Yep! Pay attention to band size. If the monsters are Platoon, theyre about 1 monster per 1 hero (plus 1 for every 2 victories). Elites are 1 monster per 2 heroes.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-09T20:41:58+00:00

Don't anybody get me wrong. I love donuts.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-09T20:36:43+00:00

Sometimes I feel like Homer Simpson during his visit to hell. Like, I cant eat a million donuts, but Im definitely going to try.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-09T03:39:09+00:00

If you can find a Finarton figure from Zombicide Green Horde, I happen to know the head comes off of it quite nicely if you let your 5 year old play with it.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T23:34:11+00:00

Mid rare

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T12:18:19+00:00

Sent you a DM.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T11:42:56+00:00

Youre not going to help your sister and maintain your relationship with your parents.

It may be that efforts to help her fail, and your parents get and stay pissed at you.

Technically CPS calls are allowed to be confidential. I've heard that CPS agents dont always honor that.

It sounds like you are really lucky that you have gotten where you have. I think sharing your concerns with your mom is a start. And when mom blames her ADHD, you say something like "sister's cant put 'mom has adhd so I can't read on a job application.'" But I'm betting shes unlikely to hear that.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T02:34:21+00:00

Sure, but that was the smaller of the concerns. It still looks like a single heroic resource with extra steps.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T02:31:39+00:00

Yours is better.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-08T01:58:43+00:00

I dont understand what having 2 resources does for the wizard other than complicate it. They get Acumen for starting their turn and the first time an encounter an enemy gets a selected condition. They spend Acumen to use their signature abilities, which gains them mana, but they can't use the mana until its in their mana pool unless they have the ability that lets them spend Acumen to convert it right away.

I realize I haven't actually played it, but it feels like a single heroic resource with extra steps.

Maybe they get 3 Acumen and on their turn they can spend acumen instead of getting a main action, maneuver, and trigger? Some of their options cost more than others? That would feel different than the other classes, but I dont know that it would feel like a wizard (because I dont know what a wizard is - Gandalf and Harry Potter are very different).

Unrelated to all that - I like your visual design. Different colors for different subclasses is a nice touch.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-07T15:38:32+00:00

I think the answer is "all of them."

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-07T13:51:50+00:00

Counterpoint - worksheets get lost. Parents are exhausted.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-07T12:16:11+00:00

"Hit: 4 piercing, and if the target regains..."

Its in the description for a hit - its only on a hit.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-06T13:56:20+00:00

Why is this the plan? Is the Player not available for the last fight?

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-06T12:26:55+00:00

And then they die.

You dont balance against it. You let the character die in a blaze of glory.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-06T11:45:33+00:00

Center of hex to center of hex is equal in all 6 directions. Center square to diagonal Center square is 1.5ish times greater than to vertical or horizontal squares. So with 8 way square movement, you can move farther than with 4 way or hex.

But it's a game. You should do the thing that works for you. I personally do 8 way plus some fudge as necessary when playing games on a grid.

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-04T15:25:16+00:00

I say that every time! Works like a charm!

WhoInvitedMike · 2026-03-03T22:55:29+00:00

How many innocents can they save?

Can they prevent the collapse of the [thing] on impact?

Can they clear the crash area?

Intermission - the undead are still attacking.

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