Submit Your Questions for the July Q&A Livestream!
Added 2020-07-15 16:32:43 +0000 UTCOur July 2020 Livestream will be an Encounter Building Workshop! Join us stream on Thursday, July 30th from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at twitch.tv/dungeon_dudes!
Please submit any questions you may have about building combat, exploration, and roleplaying encounters for D&D 5e by replaying to this thread. Possible sub-topics might include:
- Balancing combat encounters
- Building skill challenges, exploration encounters, and roleplaying encounters
- Choosing, tweaking, or home brewing monsters
- Creating evocative and interesting environments and set-pieces
- Designing interesting objectives, narratives, and roleplaying within a combat encounter
Please leave your questions in the comments below by Wednesday July 29th at 11:59 PM. To begin, we’d ask that you submit no more than one question for consideration.
We hope we can answer most submissions, but we may need to narrow our selections occasionally depending on the quantity of the submissions. We’ll curate the questions to avoid duplicates, and we encourage you to LIKE questions submitted by other patrons which are of interest to you so we can prioritize if necessary. We’ll read out your questions out during the stream, and hopefully take a few extra questions from the live chat as well.
If you miss the live stream, don’t worry — the full recording will be available on YouTube a few days later.
Cheers
Kelly & Monty
Comments
What can I do in a campaign or scenario whithout a real time preasure, when the group decides to take long rests after almost any combat encounter? What kind of consequences can I create in that case for the group? I don‘t want to punish them for being cautious, but it slows the pace of the game and makes it less of a challenge.
2020-07-29 23:36:09 +0000 UTCLong time RPG'er (1983) and first time DM. We are doing homebrew based upon 5e. NPC's and venue are set. We will be rolling initiative/attack/damage simultaneously to keep the pace quick. We have newbies that are used to video games more than story telling. What other advice do you have about making the game exciting and put some tension in for first time players? I am planning on having kobolds attack them on their first night.
2020-07-27 19:09:05 +0000 UTCI would love to hear your thoughts on how to craft and play encounters collaboratively - on how to adapt to situations with multiple DMs. For instance, I am in Westmarches-style campaign with seven other players that meets weekly. Usually, someone crafts a one or two night encounter (we find they always take one more night than planned). We came up with a fun way to build this into the narrative - we all own a bar called the Red Flagon, and whoever is DMing that night has his character run the pub while everyone else is adventuring. But! Me and another player are planning a climactic encounter to get us all to level 5, defending the Red Flagon from attack, and don't know what to do with our two characters, who need to be there for the whole climax-of-these-adventures to take place. So, I guess I'm asking, in terms of encounter building, how might we play our own characters in an encounter? And, any tips for building a narrative and encounter collaboratively?
2020-07-24 00:16:52 +0000 UTCDiscord handle if you choose my question is natangel.
Natalia Angel Menking
2020-07-20 19:35:14 +0000 UTCI went from 3.5 to about 9 years of not playing D and D, so I missed out any and all of 4th edition. I keep hearing about how there were good and bad things about it. Is there any way to incorporate the good into 5e without having to go through all of the 4th ed content? What would be some fun ways to do this?
Natalia Angel Menking
2020-07-20 19:33:38 +0000 UTCfor my past questions please use my handle C1ock like in the discord.
Rich McCann
2020-07-20 19:04:54 +0000 UTCWhat are tips to speed up combat?
Rich McCann
2020-07-20 19:04:25 +0000 UTCHow can you prevent dungeons from becoming just a slog?
Rich McCann
2020-07-20 19:04:09 +0000 UTCI'd also love to hear any advice on crafting skill challenges. I try to use them for exploration in my games, but it can be tough to think of something original each time
2020-07-19 18:10:16 +0000 UTCThe difficulty I have is that if I make the combat "too complex" I typically lose the interest of 1 or 2 of my players. Eg. If I have an encounter in a thick wooded area (lots of cover). The barbarian rages and just keeps running in a straight line killing all the trees. Please note: I am volunteering for a youth group so it can't be too in-depth, just lots of fun for everyone. The group ranges from 9-13 years of age. Right now we are on hold, but when we are able to play again, I would like to have a larger tool box to keep them more interested.
chris
2020-07-17 22:43:38 +0000 UTC
