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Grimlock Chieftain CR 5 Humanoid, Savvy Pack Defender AC 18 (plate scraps and shield) HP 68 (8d8 + 32) Speed 30 ft. Saving Throws...

My party of level 9ish PCs are headed into some long-abandoned dwarven tunnels next session, which intersect an area of...

Thanks! Yeah, my party is five level 9ish PCs, so I can really bring it on without any real worry for their safety. The encounter I'm...

It looks like the fire ate my post, so maybe too late, but here's how I do it: Normal grimlocks are 1/4 CR. Decide what you want the...

My go-to transformation for "Elite" creatures is: - double hit points - double attacks or double damage dice (or some combination...

Thanks CapnZapp those are awesome and I will hold onto them for any future encounters they may have with Grimlocks but I think they are...

Here are three variants I whipped up for an encounter - Grimlock "cannibals", "brutes" and "warriors". I'd peg them at CR 2 (or CR 3 if...

For me, fumble equals failure plus complication, nothing more. "Incompetence on parade" isn't fun for most players.

I do have to say that most GMs tend to take "fumble" as "chance to make the character look stupid/silly/incompetent". I hate that, and...

Indeed, And regardless of the system, whether it’s a binary roll like D&D, degrees of success like TOR, success with consequences like...

I use both pass/fail and degrees of success. At the table it works well, but originally players expected everything to be degrees of...

Thing is, the consequences of a failure is rarely “nothing happens” even in a pass/fail system à la D&D. Even when the result isn’t...

I wonder if that might be part of the problem. I remember back in the days when we were playing Pathfinder 1, and one of my more...

I used to play regularly with a guy like that (we're still friends but don't play as often together). It is just the way some people...

Ah, so many times have we asked that question! We have even provided character sheets for him where the data is already calculated...