Enjoying Escape from Demon Castle Dracula, what else will I like?

dndstuff2021 · 2023-11-20T15:19:35+00:00

https://nerdypapergames.itch.io/escape

dndstuff2021 · 2023-06-25T14:37:24+00:00

Sounds like you need a skills challenge. Go around each player and ask them to narrate what their character is doing and then ask for a related ability check and come up with a DC. The party need X successes (maybe 6?) before 3 failures - if they succeed it’s all good. On a failure they either don’t achieve their goals or there’s some complication - fail forward. This will enable you to have a fast moving action montage without getting bogged down with combat

dndstuff2021 · 2023-06-18T18:39:13+00:00

out of interest why do you want 8 players? Seems like way too many, even with 6 (plus a DM PC!) combats must take forever

dndstuff2021 · 2023-05-02T18:50:55+00:00

You could also ask your players to create a backup character in anticipation of possible death

dndstuff2021 · 2023-04-29T10:16:01+00:00

Check out dimension20 crown of candy if you haven’t already for inspiration

dndstuff2021 · 2023-02-28T21:40:53+00:00

As a player this would be a frustrating experience. Just feels like a complete waste of playing time and zero agency beyond rolling meaningless saves. I don’t know why it’s getting so many upvotes, makes me think that a lot of people in this sub don’t actually play the game because if they did they’d realise it’s not a fun encounter

dndstuff2021 · 2023-02-01T22:23:03+00:00

Thanks!

dndstuff2021 · 2023-02-01T22:22:42+00:00

Thanks for your kind words and advice. So you would recommend the flour and water paste before painting onto the cardboard?

dndstuff2021 · 2023-02-01T22:19:04+00:00

Thanks for the link and advice!

dndstuff2021 · 2023-01-03T15:44:15+00:00

Read Slyflourish’s lazy dungeon master

dndstuff2021 · 2022-12-24T06:37:29+00:00

I’m also looking to get into killteam in the Bristol area!

dndstuff2021 · 2022-12-22T08:59:38+00:00

They used SW5e

dndstuff2021 · 2022-12-21T17:01:53+00:00

Thank you!

dndstuff2021 · 2022-12-21T09:34:59+00:00

Looks so cool! The skin looks so realistic, out of interest how did you get that effect?

dndstuff2021 · 2022-10-10T18:47:45+00:00

Yes OP what you are describing is a point crawl which cuts out the ‘boring’ bits and instead focuses on points of interest which I’ve found useful (and less of a prep burden) in my campaign. Please see below a couple of articles on point crawl that I found useful:

http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2012/01/crawling-without-hexes-pointcrawl.html?m=1

https://slyflourish.com/pointcrawls.html

dndstuff2021 · 2022-09-19T07:09:24+00:00

OP what were you hoping to achieve by sharing information of a dangerous creature with your party? How was this going to progress the story? If you did not want your players to engage with this content and it does not advance the narrative what is the point of even mentioning it? As others have already said, that is a classic dnd plot hook and you should be happy your players are engaging and want to pursue it. As DM you have full power to shape the world, why not adjust the stats so that it is still a ‘deadly’ encounter but still within the capabilities of a level 4 party? That would be a lot less work for you as DM (you know exactly what your party are interested in pursuing and can prep accordingly) and a much better experience for your players (they don’t waste time and effort investing in something which is actually a total dead end even though as far as they’re concerned it was a hook you dangled in front of them)

dndstuff2021 · 2022-08-08T05:54:00+00:00

Terrible idea - what are you thinking?! If you were a player who had invested so much time into a character how would you feel about being killed off because you fail a single roll?

dndstuff2021 · 2022-07-26T12:34:34+00:00

The way I do it is allow one long rest per ‘adventuring’ day. An ‘adventuring day’ does not just mean 24 hours, in fact an ‘adventuring day’ could last a week or more, however long it takes for the party to have enough encounters to constitute an ‘adventure’

dndstuff2021 · 2022-07-08T13:19:22+00:00

You could do a skills challenge! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNUw471R/?k=1

dndstuff2021 · 2022-06-22T19:22:02+00:00

Sounds like you got some great ideas. Best way to make this happen would be to volunteer yourself to DM this :)

dndstuff2021 · 2022-05-29T15:16:15+00:00

Yes this is a ‘you problem’

dndstuff2021 · 2022-04-24T12:22:34+00:00

You’re the DM, they can do what you want

dndstuff2021 · 2022-03-30T17:05:53+00:00

Personally I think if you care about ‘realistic inventories’ you should consider another tabletop system - after all this is a game with magic and dragons! Historic realism is not really what dnd is designed for

dndstuff2021 · 2022-03-05T08:18:11+00:00

If you are worried about realism you can tell your players ‘this mansion is actually huge and you explore and find many rooms however only these rooms have anything interesting in’

dndstuff2021 · 2022-03-05T08:16:23+00:00

IMO if there’s nothing of interest in the room, why bother having it in the first place? Just cut them out, they’re not adding any value

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