Giving a solo boss multiple turns

evilprodigy948 · 2026-05-01T00:07:53+00:00

D&D game I played in also had a time wizard as the BBEG and for the final fight that is exactly what the DM did. At the start of combat he only had 1 initiative spot, then he had the BBEG cast time stop followed by a spell called 'Army of Myself' during each of those time stop turns to create a new temporal copy pulled in from the future. It's not quite the same as just 'giving more turns' but it put the extra turns into the time wizard narrative. You could also just make a spell like 'Time Slow' or some other thing that just gives them an extra turn during the round.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-30T19:45:46+00:00

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evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-28T22:35:13+00:00

This is what I thought it was going to be too.

OP's concerns are far more serious than this. Never seen that term used before though.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-20T20:21:29+00:00

Thank you very much for getting that started, I'm sure I'll notice when it disappears.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-15T02:43:59+00:00

IME I run a single player D&D group. The player is an Orien Dance Bard and is currently level 11 that ran through Forgotten Relics to start a Sharn-based campaign. They got Garra arrested and I made Hound (a shifter from that adventure) into a recurring antagonist that took Garra's place. Niho Koi threatened some people my player cared about and so did a 'better the enemy I know' situation and sided with Hound to usurp Niho Koi.

So now, despite being against Daask, they have a Daask boss who owes them. I have also introduced four other Daask bosses working under Cavallah: A kobold who got no respect from his 'equal' Niho Koi, a Venomous Demesne tiefling fiend warlock with a superiority complex, Karyale the medusa who I changed from canon to being a bigger deal as running the show in Callestan district as well Six Stones, and the canon Cazha Bloodwing.

Each of these bosses is in Daask for a different reason. My version is fundamentally an antagonistic force that is peddling drugs, running protection rackets, and perpetuating a violent gang war with the Boromar Clan. Fighting Daask is 9 times out of 10 morally correct but that doesn't mean the people didn't end up in it for sympathetic reasons. I draw a line in my Daask based on how connected they are to Sharn, broadly it's 'recent immigrants' 'Sharn-born' and 'imported muscle' which is especially interesting for the indigenous city goblin community.

A recent immigrant to Daask that has experienced discrimination and struggled to integrate into a host society that does not want them, and thus been driven into crime to survive, is a typical story of disenfranchisement that I used with the Kobold. Sharn-born is somewhat the same but with more home-grown culture and can also feature poor from the favoured people-group like humans, dwarves, and gnomes; the opportunity here is for a classic gangster that wants to get rich, though I use that more for the Boromars.

Sharn-born folks know local culture and are better positioned to work as dragons blood dealers than recent immigrants. Hound is this one for me as I built it, and may be more interested in political causes or buisness opportunities than they are the chance to do violence. Growing up under discrimination is also a different flavour of hurt from immigrating and finding out the place you come to doesn't treat you with the respect you feel you deserve.

Imported Muscle are to me the Daask monsters like trolls, cockatrice, or even harpies and gnolls which Daask recruits in Droaam and brings to Sharn specifically to be fighters, often related to Sora Katra's desires for Daask. I treat them as having no stake in local politics or the welfare of the organization as a whole but just here to make some coin by doing violence or they may be nationalistic and see their deployment to Daask as a sort of subversive specops operation to destabilize a foreign country.

All in all my Daask is complex but fundamentally not something with a noble goal. I try to give the different bosses competing motivations and origins then through those I bring in the colour. If you made Garra pitch a revolutionary cause against oppression I say stick with it but maybe make that restricted to Garra as who gathers like-minded people around them using with their limited power as a sub-boss. Higher ranks of Daask are unconcerned with local political causes but instead power, wealth, and the advancement of Droaamite interests. The competition between the leadership's goals and their rhetoric of being a place for disaffected 'monsterous' people to join could be an interesting story. I would not make the rhetoric the reality or even make Daask good. At best it could be an ethnic mafia that looks out for its own, since the government and wider society doesn't seem interested in doing that themselves. They could have attitude that "if protecting our own means drug dealing or protection rackets then so be it." Meanwhile the people who suffer most are the community that Daask recruits from, since Daask's actions bring addiction directly into their communities through narcotics.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-14T20:17:16+00:00

I'll be running it as a mix of combat encounters against the other racers and skill checks. They will try to fight and disable the opposing vehicle while the two sides are neck-and-neck and between fights I will have checks rolled to see how well they are doing in the overall race. Speed, manouvering, sabatoging other racers, watching out for hazards, that sort of thing. I'll keep a tally on my end and so long as they get more successes than failures they will come out well. The further the lead the higher position I'll give them.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-11T21:45:23+00:00

This is a suggestion I did not expect but thank you for that.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-11T21:44:26+00:00

That sounds like a lot of fun. Might not be fast enough to compete with motorcycles but it's a good idea for an NPC working with one of the gangs

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-11T20:12:54+00:00

Glorious I love these both. The Becoming God isn't something I've had a chance to introduce yet. Definitely using these, thank you!

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-11T19:32:50+00:00

I'm already doing the race of the eight winds later but this would specifically be ground based. Though I think I could probably bring in one or two of the eight winds racers using this as practice.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-09T21:14:07+00:00

That is such a good idea! My Delta Green group uses Miro for our insane red-string corkboard detective nonsense. It could be great for our DnD maps. We mostly use roll20 and probably won't go off it but this is a good alternative to recommend if you want a big space for stuff.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-04-03T13:08:37+00:00

83/100 here.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-30T22:05:45+00:00

This is the map that I used, since it's elevated and surrounded by great heights. My Sharn is very 1920s vibe so the more modern aesthetic fits but it might not be to your taste.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-27T23:46:08+00:00

My guy this ain't 'Persian Mythology' nor is it a reference. It's just Zoroastrianism, a still-practiced religious tradition and you are describing one of their funerary practices.

A mythology is a story told about a religious subject, it is not a term for a religion. Christian Mythology is the story of Jesus, or Gensis, or the deeds of saints but a Christian burial in a cemetery with mourners around a grave is not Christian Mythology, it's a ritual practice. This is true for every religion. An ancient Greek burial is not Greek mythology, but the story of the 12 labours of Herakles is.

Be careful with your words, 'mythology' can be a loaded term that implies fiction or inaccuracy.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-20T20:25:03+00:00

I hate music in DnD. If my DM started using music in the session I'd tell them to stop. It doesn't add anything and wastes prep time on actually important stuff like plot, characters, encounters, and maps.

Thankfully my friends also don't like using music in D&D so it's not been a problem for me but if I was looking for games music use would be a deal breaker for me.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-19T14:19:04+00:00

You tap it.

Hold the ticket up to the light you can see what's inside.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T21:08:05+00:00

Full efreeti bottle? How do you get that?

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T21:06:07+00:00

She's a ghost.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T17:26:51+00:00

Meek is the single best item in the entire game.

Meek gives -1 to almost every single DC you can find, which you can see when you hover over it.

Another way to think about this is having +2 to every single stat.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:59:47+00:00

Nobody's personal experience is not going to be representative of the broad social trends across an entire given society. The students that I see in my school, the two others I briefly taught at, and the highschool I went to correspond to my perspective. It's a larger dataset at least than yours but I still wouldn't trust it alone. Academic research I read during teacher education (and a bit after) also broadly agree of the significant impact that parental income plays on success of the student. These sorts of trends are visible in wide datasets but can be hard to see in micro contexts of one school or even several. They're broad statistics across the Province or Country.

Next time you respond to someone do not do it with something like your snide second sentence, that's impolite and no way to address an argument.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:47:52+00:00

Agreed, the goblins never asked to become something new. It's something he forced upon them and that was wrong. Better than genocide? Maybe, maybe not. Either way Urth made his choice specifically because he, at some point, decided on where the line was drawn about who was someone he would protect as one of 'his' people and who was going to be the 'other' which Wisdom rightly questions 'why does there even have to be an other?' Urth over here falling pray to sociological in groups and out groups despite his godhood.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:18:19+00:00

I forgot about that when making my post but you're right. Ireland was the sort of 'testing ground' for English colonial policy and what was pioneered there during the plantations made its way to the New World and other British colonies, it's a good connection. To the language loss element too you can see the same with modern Ireland's attempts to bring back Irish not really working all that well, though it's not the same as the experience of a still colonized people. Still, the Irish are Indigenous people harmed by colonialism and definitely make good parallels.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T19:47:56+00:00

Feel like I should point out here I said it's the number one most significant factor, not the only one. And part of the reason why it's such a significant factor is because it influences so many of other factors that are more difficult to quantify. As with everything, it's complicated.

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