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Big set piece with spiders. And mud. Difficult terrain and webs. Let them try to run from that. Lots of treasure in webs to give them a taste of the sweet stuff. And a ghost. The ghosts tells them to find his hat. The hat is up a tree. There are spiders up the tree. And webs.

Yeah, the folk I run games for manly want to be carried along on a rollicking adventure rather than explore their backstories or just see what’s out there.

I’d say always have a back door to any encounter so if it goes completely tits up like an npc dies or something irreversible happens you can carry on without having to through out the whole adventure. My players sometimes worry that they are going to do something to derail the adventure but if...

I like it. But I like change so it might be just the newish I’m digging.

I remember reading with intense interest the Companion Set (green box) and learning all about wormholes and planar adventures. For me it was the next step for a fantasy game.

Makes me think of of Joe Haldeman’s ‘The Forever War:’ things turned to naughty word all the time.

I really like the idea of the character you like (let’s say Obi-Wan) is the equivalent of level 20 or so and all the levels leading up to that are the adventures you did not see.

I’m tuning COS with A5E rules but the place is so small I’ve not had cause to use the travel rules. But I’m also running TOD and the travel rules work really well there. Some of the travel jobs seem a bit funky but they’re mostly okay.

My table is doing CoS and it’s going fine. Nothing has come up my (DM) side. Four of them have A5E characters and one grognard has an O5E champion fighter. Works fine.

My table has hit 7th level and over half are complaining that they have too many abilities to keep track of.

The few times I tried it they complained there was not enough/too much to do.

My players would have none of that. They always seem to want to be carried along by the story than make it themselves.

Holy thread necromancy, Batman!

Sometimes it’s MUCH easier to give them the illusion of choice.

It was last week and I’m DMing tonight. I have two campaigns on the go: one online over Teams and one in person.

Crikey, that’s a lot of work. Good going. I just give em what I think goes with their character and never get any more complicated than that. Edit: crikey- just got the backlash from the thread necromancy.

Probably this is part of the issue. For me if the fight gets to the dull spot I contrive to end it early. And there’s a million way to do that. More than four rounds is enough for me.

Not sure if this is quite what you mean but I remember when playing Baldurs Gate back in the day think that the farmers all seemed like idealised American homesteaders from the 19th Century. It always made me think how the games I ran had a definite Feudal flavour were said farmer was a serf...

Just a thought but a player might use lower level spells/abilities to burn through legendary resistances and then unload the nukes.

I’m hoping my next campaign will be Dark Sun so the power up style of fighting is something I’m in favour of in a gladiatorial setting.