Recent content by Fromost the Grimm

Have everyone make a Dexterity check; the character with the lowest result trips and falls onto the character with next lowest result, then both fall on the character with the next lowest result, and this continues until the whole party are sliding down the mountainside in a big, chaotic heap...

Why not give the choice: either focus on making your attack at the cost of defenses, and draw an AoO after the attack, or try to shoot while on the defensive, so make the attach roll with disadvantage.

First ever session, first ever character -- half-elf ranger -- got hit by the evil cleric's spell and took damage, the DM flavoured it up by saying my character's blood heated up and turned to lava! As a newbie player, this freaked me out a little. This was my first ever play of the game, and...

Personally, I'd find any such 'letter' at the end of BBEG fight a bit of a let-down. There are other ways of reaching the same thing, as other posters have chimed in with ... the crux of which comes down to how much your players play just to kill things, versus how much your players play for...