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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.'Tone setting' is hard to find with alot of playgroups, a good amount of PC's can go a little meta and assume (not unreasonably) if the... -
TorgoTheWhite reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting with
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Scenery is not intended to be interesting mechanically (which I assume is why you're bringing up tactical-level resource management)... -
TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.Yep, that is how rests work in my game. A LR is actually a significant commodity, where players will actively ignore their metagame...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.I've mentioned this before, but it is kindof nuts how very non high fantasy-framed things translate to real solid inspiration for this...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to GMMichael's post in the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting with Like.
Long journeys? You should act a little like a reality show producer, and ask the characters how they feel about each other or something...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to Mistwell's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases Updated Unearthed Arcana for Arcane Subclasses with Like.
Ugh thar Monk subclass...it's bad. It's even worse than the last version. Which is hard to do. Somehow they made it both weaker AND more...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread What constitutes a "hit" in your mind?.Ah yes! The WW made me understand why you realistically want to try to "social-combat" your way out of a gunfight when you can... lethal...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to Voadam's post in the thread What constitutes a "hit" in your mind? with Like.
In D&D where hp represents a lot of stuff it is fluid and I am fine with thinking hits on the last 10 hp or so as all solid physical...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.It really is.. it lets my Wizard or Bards truly do the Gandalf thing and play lorekeeper for the party. So, I whisper what they connect...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting with Like.
Thanks. I really feel a great line or two, and then building around that, sets a mood-engineered "imagery hook." I know through outside...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting with Like.
I only play in person, so I do not know that feature. But that sounds like a cool feature.
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.Sometimes I will use that add-on "naturalist" NPC to push non-combat interaction. The whisper feature on VTT has been a godsend for...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.One thing I've done is enriched regional cultures. This can guide encounter types. Currently the region my PC's are in; NPC's...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting.I agree, the handwave can be problematic for world-builders. Like when you read something that was obviously rushed - the writer...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to M.T. Black's post in the thread D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting with Like.
The party had to travel from Iskandar to Deepwater last night, which is about fifty miles on a well established road. Making these sorts...