Hot take: Strongest creatures in the setting shouldn't just be clowned by PCs with no resistance.
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Heroic fantasy vs dark gritty fantasy.
Give me heroic fantasy every time.
Even in Heroic Fantasy the enemies should be challenging, while in D&D (not even 5e, 3.5 had this issue too), it’s basically inevitable that high enough PCs will rollstomp everything, laughing all the way.
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When you need to stop your players from trying to fight the Gods.
There’s an old Dragon email about a guy needing TSR to print a new “deities and demigods” because his players had already beaten all those from the original.
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Inspired by frustrating conversation I had. For those curious, that was the statblock of Caine, father of the vampires.
WW also made a guy who was a vampire, mage, werewolf and eventually ashtray, so i wouldn’t put them on a pedestal
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WW also made a guy who was a vampire, mage, werewolf and eventually ashtray, so i wouldn’t put them on a pedestal
And then he either got murdered by PCs or Metuzalah or exploded from Paradox, before turnign into ashtray.
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To be fair, starting at around level 13 it becomes more challenging to, well, challenge a party without having dragons and shit everywhere. You can almost not build encounters with “normal” enemies anymore.
Before my group got bored with D&D and we decided to give it a break and switch to Mage, it got to a level I was prepping to have the this level 13 party fight Vecna and Zariel at once, just to make it at least a little hard.
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This is Pathfinder, kiddo, we don’t play around with silly D&D handwaves: Which wizard, and why?
Your character doesn’t know that information.
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It is actually bad game design in the sense that there really isn’t a decent mechanic to escape monsters.
5.0 orcs, for example, had double the speed of the average PC with their dumbass free move action.
The solution is rolling disengage as a series of skill checks (like World of Darkness would…) but then you have to explain how, exactly, a dude in full plate escapes a dragon.
Pre-firearm plate armor was pretty lightweight, lots of videos of people running and rolling and climbing in it. Is D&D supposed to only be like jousting armor where you can’t move? I’ve never been clear on this and I’m more willing to look like a twerp about it on here than with a DM in person
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Your character doesn’t know that information.
“And it was in this moment, when the player opened the book on RECALL KNOWLEDGE rules, that the DM realized, he done fucked up.”
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“And it was in this moment, when the player opened the book on RECALL KNOWLEDGE rules, that the DM realized, he done fucked up.”
Can’t recall things you never knew.
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Can’t recall things you never knew.
Succesful Recal Knowledge chack basically amounts to “yes I do know it”.
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