I have a table of 6 players.
I have more people interested in playing and I thought out of people who had experience beyond many people's tables to see if things can develop the same or gets very complicated.
What strategies are implemented to speed up the game?
Hi there! I know that is a heavy question... I thought of a dungeon with forbiddance but with circles of teleport as the only way to go deeper in the dungeon, that way I can be certain that molding the wall will get them through since they wont know where to continue.
Using the qualities of some of the evil chars to make this tougher, like... I don't know, a Carceri like room (1d6 negative energy per assault) until they get the shackles (which prevent that from happening)
Or a room filled with water without possibility to breathe. May not stop high lvl chars, but perhaps it may make them spend their resources...
The cleric does not go for support, he has a very good tactic for "im alone and noone knows nothing about this game" He can manage heavy stuff but, they have no party tactic.
Stone, is a flying pyramid. Do you suggest something else?, I'm open to ideas... Since the dungeon is being built with the other party and my ideas... If those are plausible i'll add them.
Add spells to the mythal, improve the structure of the building and show an avatar of himself, which since he's "dead" this is all he can do and the avatar is himself, so killed the avatar, the pyramydo goes down
A Red Dragon Adult A 15th lvl wizard A mummy with 7 lvls of Cleric A Blackguard warlock A Rakhshasa Roguish A 14th lvl transmutation wiz A wizard lich 13th lvl
If possible, lie, and tell the good group the evil group is us.
When they're going through the encounter, at a opportune time, jump out and have everyone cast disjunction on the party. If possible, from timestop or other "don't bother trying to resist" setup.
Back in December, I promised to deliver my rant on prestige classes. Instead, I ended up designing one. (Nothing in life goes in a straight line, it seems. Just curves, twists and unexpected opportunities.) Using the 3.5 variant Pathfinder rules, I submitted and had published the Dawa Defender, which is available as a free download, [...]
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Last night I was running Encounters at my FLGS. The Duegar Scouts can turn invisible as a Standard Action until the end of their next turn or until THEY hit or miss with an attack. One of the PC's guessed where the monster might be and covered the area with a blast attack hitting the creature. ...
One of the PC who plays in my Encounters session has a power that lets him make a stealth check to hide if he has "concealment." Last night we was behind a hard corner in a room without any other terrain effects. The monsters had their line of sight partially blocked which gave him cover. So t...
it's explicitly a gamist-centred system design, and thus doesn't hold up well when you look at it through the standards 3.5 is supposedly holding itself to
the best parts, imo, of the whole thing were when you would go off on little tangents about why something was a trap or why this power is usually crap or suchlike
i.e., the "thinking about D&D" parts as opposed to the "playing about D&D" parts
that's probably a function of a) rants are always entertaining and b) opinions tend to come pre-prepared and have built in flow, not something intrinsically wrong with the idea of an LP of playing D&D
I'm just asking you don't lose that when the playing part starts to work
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I have a table of 6 players.
I have more people interested in playing and I thought out of people who had experience beyond many people's tables to see if things can develop the same or gets very complicated.
What strategies are implemented to speed up the game?
Last night I was running Encounters at my FLGS. The Duegar Scouts can turn invisible as a Standard Action until the end of their next turn or until THEY hit or miss with an attack. One of the PC's guessed where the monster might be and covered the area with a blast attack hitting the creature. ...
A few times I've seen a question where the asker specifically only wanted answers to the game he tagged (usually 4e, not to flame, just to illustrate). I've read the question and responded to myself, "darn, I'd like to see answers relating to _". What is the etiquette on either asking a specifi...
