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ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3706345" data-attributes="member: 22882">If anything it sounds even less like a console RPG than the current version of D&D, which in turn seemed less like a console RPG than BECMI, the latter being, from my recollection, the most console RPGish version of straight D&D to date - very little tactical positioning, battles both quick and numerous.The monsters are way too complicated.  Basic mooks should not have the kind of stance/token/recharge abilities you describe in this example.  This is very un-console-RPGish, and it would increase rather than decrease the GM's workload.Two orcs, two goblins and a hobgoblin taking three rounds to kill seems fair, though not very console-RPGish.I suppose you could argue both are covered by the idea these orcs and goblins are actually classed NPCs of some importance - bounty hunters, perhaps?  However, the example of play doesn't indicate that; in a console RPG, there would be a dramatic intro scene for enemies worth this much effort.Some of the abilities are still per day.  Ugh.  The hybrid per-day/per-encounter thing does NOT solve the issues per-encounter is supposed to solve.  Per-encounter, meanwhile, isn't console RPGish at all and takes away from that feel.Most of what are called stances... aren't.  Stance would make more sense on a static ability.For all those gripes, I don't really mind the example.  It would be interesting for a sub-boss encounter, though then it's too easy; my biggest issues are with the terminology, with the overly complicated abilities for what appear to be random mooks, and with it not being anything at ALL like a console RPG. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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