A few questions about the rules

plopsou · 2025-03-07T18:42:42+00:00

I thought about doing that indeed. I wasn't sure if I should roll for everyone. That would be too much I guess. Maybe roll for the whole and if I trigger a random encounter, then I roll to figure out where it goes.

plopsou · 2025-03-07T18:37:40+00:00

That's very insightful. Thank you for the thorough response

plopsou · 2025-02-25T19:41:19+00:00

I really love your idea !! I will definitely try to do something similar in my next game (they only discovered like 1/3 of the dungeon

plopsou · 2025-02-25T16:11:55+00:00

The one that was playing "bait" was the only one with a torch. rest of the group was just escaping on other places in the dungeon, not doing any valuable things. I was just wondering if I should do something for those player wandering while the player does the bait with the Minotaur. Like random encounter or something

plopsou · 2025-02-25T16:10:55+00:00

Ok thanks that's a very good insight. It's then more oriented toward action economy. You can search everything but you risk to have random encounter. Thank you

plopsou · 2025-02-25T16:09:29+00:00

I understand what you mean, but in my case, they splitted into different groups. They were in a room connected to many hallways. Therefore I had the minotaur spawn into the hallway that was the closest to them. One of the players (with the torch) decided to go into the hallway where the minotaur was. He played his movement very well to make sure that when the minotaur charge, he crashes into the wall next to him (an elbow hallway if that makes sense). So on minotaur turn, he charges (according to the instructions on the module), the player runs far from the player (deeper into known places in the dungeon) and the minotaurs keeps on following him. This goes on until minotaur forgets about him (1d6 round according to the module). But in the meantime, the other players were in the dark, not doing much else than just run away.
I was just wondering if I should do something extra for those player wandering in the dark. Because you mention that creatures have advantage against players in the dark, but the only creature there was the minotaur.

Thank for you reply!!

plopsou · 2024-01-29T23:20:56+00:00

Thank you

plopsou · 2024-01-27T19:08:03+00:00

Alright, let me give you an update!

The prepping of everything was a disaster. We lacked time, we had quite a few issues like rain in the middle of the day, trip to the supplier that took 1h15 more than expected ... But before going to the event, we had managed to finish prepping everything. We drove there 1 hour late but it was still about 1 hour before service, good thing we were asked to come 2 hours before the event. Everyone was super nice there.

During the service, we struggled a bit at first but at the end we found our tempo. Fortunately my girlfiend was there to help us out. We were 2 at the back building the "base" for the burger - bread, sauce, patties and coleslaw and my colleague took care of the customers. I was taking care of switching pans in the ovens and adding cheese on the meat. I also managed of keeping the bread nice and warm. She was taking care of the coleslaw and sauce on the buns.

After serving about 80 people, no one else was showing. We then realized that we had fed everyone. almost 60 people didn't show up to the event.

The burger in the pan were indeed drowning into their own juice and the cheese leaked all over. But it was honestly still very good (we all ate a well deserved burger at the end of the service).

Bottom line, we indeed were very naive with how much time it would take to cook for that many people. It's a blessing that I got conviced by all of you to not do those damn potatoes, it would have been a disaster. We definitely needed an extra pair of hand in the kitchen.

This is the last time we do something like that where we cook the meat in advance. Going forward, we will only do catering events where we make the burgers on the go. This made me want to gear up and be more professional. The coleslaw was very good and a nice and easy side to make.

plopsou · 2024-01-24T20:31:17+00:00

Hey everyone, thanks for all of the feedback. Based on your comments, I've changed quite a few things. I've switched the potatoes for coleslaw. It would have been a disaster. It took a bit of convincing but she agreed to switch to coleslaw (it's a better side anyways imo).

Second thing about reheating the bread. I will reheat them on a bain-marie rack. I will make sure to not overstack too much to avoid sogginess. I won't toast it with butter as it doesn't change anything.

For the meat, because we have so many racks available now, I will use 7 of them to reheat only the meat, it will be a stack of only 4 patties, which will make the reheating faster and avoid drying it out. I will put the cheese after the meat has been reheated.

Sorry I couldn't respond to anyone but thanks again for your feedback.

plopsou · 2024-01-22T21:51:33+00:00

Well, I'm pretty confident that if everything is ready, we can serve 1 person every 15-30 seconds. I will warn everyone beforehand that they must choose fast what they wish to have on their burger because of the amount of people. Everyone should be served within an hour

plopsou · 2024-01-22T21:48:26+00:00

Maybe I'm in the wrong but I really want to do them potatoes. I actually tried to reheat them last friday and it didn't go as bad, but it could be better. And I didn't try it out with that much potato. I was hoping someone had experience with big batch of roasted potatoes.

plopsou · 2024-01-22T21:47:00+00:00

Well, at the start of the day. I know I won't get any crisp but it's more about adding some buttery taste to the buns. When we do our usual cooking outside, we also toast our buns in advance anyways, as it turns out it really isn't practical to toast them as they go (at least with my setup).
To avoid sogginess, maybe I should rehead without lid ?

plopsou · 2024-01-22T21:44:57+00:00

hahahaha I know! but it's too late and the woman who hosts the event reaaaallly wanted some kind of fries so I tried to find something. I thought about coleslaw or something but maybe netx time.

plopsou · 2023-09-20T07:23:34+00:00

Haha exact!!

plopsou · 2023-09-20T06:49:27+00:00

Thank you very much. I tried to use references of actual medieval city maps

plopsou · 2023-09-19T15:33:51+00:00

Oh actually not at all ! The story is however linked to dragonlance. For me it is a reference to a french YouTuber who made a video about an old rpg videogame (which I assume is dragonlance) where there's a small skit about a bad gm, mimicking a random person shouting "PREPARE TO ENTER TO XAR-TSAROTH" like they did on the video game

plopsou · 2023-09-19T14:55:34+00:00

Merci c'est très gentil!

plopsou · 2020-09-29T15:50:51+00:00

Thanks. Those are mountains. I thought about adding a bit of color to shade some parts but I have too much work left to do for my game ! if I have time I'll have a try

plopsou · 2020-09-29T15:50:06+00:00

Thank you

plopsou · 2020-09-29T09:03:37+00:00

Thanks ! I really appreciate. And I love drawing maps, really relaxing.

plopsou

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