Recent content by TorgoTheWhite

Yeah my phone has a mind of its own. Just a quote I didn't want to make

Fun topic, railroading. I often "allow" off-path behavior. Though, like yesterday for my group, sometimes the disconnect between player and character can lead to an illogical thought-path, which was happening yesterday. It wasn't that they COULDN'T get their kidnapped party member back, just...

I would just sip some cognac and go along for the ride

That is probably how I would consider starting with that build... though I complain about metagaming/videogamey thinking with casters, so to be fair, spreading out so you don't all get hit by something is a little bit in line with that. Also, if you thinned out the ranks with bows.. it would...

I think the Reaver of 🐸 may have been asking: how does that help? In reference to out-DPR-ing martials. I guess in a roundabout way they are out-DPR'ing them if they are doing no dmg. Just with a pretty fragile jenga-tower pre-strategized scenario (they are like the X-men of bards :) ). Though...

A very roundabout reasoning I have. Basically going first, with debuffing masteries (even though we are talking dmg) Does significantly boost your own dmg (not just survivability), because it craps on the opportunity for the opposition to land their own debuffs/control, it just makes their...

I don't know, especially PVP, majority team initiative means alot if you're talking about some of the weapon mastery effects, closing the distance for opponent's disadvantage (without the feat). Even a whimpy sap weapon, striking first, can start getting real lopsided on an "all 🥚 in 1 basket"...

Yes, the extra fighting style does more than you may think, just not in a flashy way. Imagine if 2 of those champions are duelist with protection fighting style... you sure better split those two up (except without heavy metagaming you would not immediately split them up). Also, again, in a 5v5...

Arise chicken, arise!!! Fun little project :) I'm slightly surprised it went that way without cover. But, that advantage on initiative + alert is something I keep ragging on when I am talking about how combat actually shakes out... I suspect going 1st in this arena accounts for alot (as it does...

Yeah, that is a little bit of weird duality.

Do your players have sweet quips for taking punishment? I tell my players that, movie action style, sometimes taking punishment and responding to that is as impressive as throwing haymakers. I throw around inspiration quite a bit. Stands up, dusts of ash, looks at young red dragon, with a wry...

Very nice, I think providing those NPC with intelligent motivations helped this encounter significantly. I've run encounters that severely piss off my players due to thinking they will be TPK'd only to find out the enemy is just trying to incapacitate them or hijack their caravan... intelligent...

... maybe lose out the rest of your action on a failed skill check like with a failed climb check, or failed difficult terrain navigation : egs of equivalent already established concepts

I don't personally prefer killing action economy for things that should be lumped in with movement or something a martial should just be able to do.