I know this is not very highbrow, and a little silly but...
So I'm DMing 4e, lovely encounter- tough, five Hobgoblins tweaked and made special with Adventure Tools, the first fight of the session and I think I'm going to give the PCs a real run for their money. We're playing a fast and dangerous game, MM3 damage for all the bad guys- actually scaled up a little so that every hit really hurts the PCs, to balance they have an AP every encounter. We've had two PC deaths in the adventure so far (only 10 encounters old), and the guys were all 'captured' in the last session but one- to avoid a TPK, fights are very bloody affairs- it's tense is what I'm trying to say.
So we get in to it-
Round 1 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - '1'
Hob2 - '1'
Hob3 - '3'
Hob4 - '1'
Hob5 - '2'
Round 2 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - '1'
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - '2'
Hob4 - '2'
Hob5 - DEAD
Round 3 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - DEAD
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - '1'
Hob4 - '2'
Hob5 - DEAD
Round 4
Hob1 - DEAD
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - DEAD
Hob4 - DEAD
Hob5 - DEAD
The players just sat around giggling for nigh on twenty minutes, not a scratch on their PCs.
I obviously roll my dice in the open, and we record everything for posterity- hence me knowing the exact dice rolls...
Either side of the DMs screen, any similar experiences?
So I'm DMing 4e, lovely encounter- tough, five Hobgoblins tweaked and made special with Adventure Tools, the first fight of the session and I think I'm going to give the PCs a real run for their money. We're playing a fast and dangerous game, MM3 damage for all the bad guys- actually scaled up a little so that every hit really hurts the PCs, to balance they have an AP every encounter. We've had two PC deaths in the adventure so far (only 10 encounters old), and the guys were all 'captured' in the last session but one- to avoid a TPK, fights are very bloody affairs- it's tense is what I'm trying to say.
So we get in to it-
Round 1 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - '1'
Hob2 - '1'
Hob3 - '3'
Hob4 - '1'
Hob5 - '2'
Round 2 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - '1'
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - '2'
Hob4 - '2'
Hob5 - DEAD
Round 3 my unadjusted attack rolls.
Hob1 - DEAD
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - '1'
Hob4 - '2'
Hob5 - DEAD
Round 4
Hob1 - DEAD
Hob2 - DEAD
Hob3 - DEAD
Hob4 - DEAD
Hob5 - DEAD
The players just sat around giggling for nigh on twenty minutes, not a scratch on their PCs.
I obviously roll my dice in the open, and we record everything for posterity- hence me knowing the exact dice rolls...
Either side of the DMs screen, any similar experiences?
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