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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 8086289" data-attributes="member: 6921763">I find that setting up a scene in Roll20 pushes me towards planning "combat".  The tool has started guiding the play rather than helping facilitate it.  I need to be more conscientious about being sure to let the players dictate the course of action - most of the time.  Certain groups (player groups and in-world bad guy groups) just want to drop the hammer early and often, of course, and that's ok.  But in the "combat breaking out most of the time" campaigns, the DM would be wise to watch for those openings where one PC hesitates in an effort to engage the opposition in parley.  Grab those opportunities so the game ceases to be "combat-samey".  Even if you do run interesting, varied combats, it is nice to demonstrate the other possibilities on conflict resolution.I'm sure many of you have seen Angry's <a href="https://theangrygm.com/three-shocking-things-you-wont-believe-about-dd-combat/" target="_blank">Three Shocking Things You Won’t Believe About D&D Combat</a> - the first of which is: Combat is not an Encounter, it's simply one means of encounter resolution (as you state above, [USER=6779196]@Charlaquin[/USER]).  One that certainly has a lot of structure that you can choose to utilize, but that structure doesn't make it necessary.  (Now that I revisit that Angry article, the second point he makes would have been a good one to break out for <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/surprise-and-sneak-attack.674486/" target="_blank">this thread</a>... but I'm sure there will be another chance in 6-8 months to revisit that topic, but I digress).</blockquote>

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