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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMSkarka" data-source="post: 2710159" data-attributes="member: 763"><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=5865&SRC=ENWorld" target="_blank">[imagel]http://www.rpgnow.com/products/product_5865.jpg[/imagel]</a>Kiss The Five Foot Square Good-bye!"Damn” muttered the player.  “How many of those things are there,  anyway?”“It looks like forty demons of various sorts, plus another 1000  orcs.”  The Game Master gazed glumly at the large map.Groans echoed around the table.   One of the players shook her head. “This is going to take all night!” It Doesn't Have To.NARRATIVE COMBAT gives Game Masters an entirely new combat system -- one that moves away from the tactical skirmish-level miniatures game that D20 has become.  This new system can be used with the existing feats and abilities, and is usable in ANY d20 game--Fantasy, Modern, Future or Past.In fiction, combat serves to highlight and resolve conflict.  The  scene shows us something important about the world, the  characters, and their relationships with one another.  Combat also  acts as a symbol for danger, sharpening the tension in a scene by  giving us a visceral sense the characters might die. In a RPG, though,  combat occurs so often it blends into the background.   The scene tells us little about the characters or the world.  Instead  it serves as a way to work with numbers and explore various  tactical options.  We play a game of combat in which random  chance, character building choices, and tactical savvy stand  dominant over narrative concerns. With NARRATIVE COMBAT we try to combine narrative  flow and the game elements of RPG combat.  The players make  meaningful choices and face obstacles worthy of heroes in the  pursuit of goals that mean something.  Meanwhile, the game  elements provide both play options and the dramatic tension  associated with the possibility of failure.This supplement, written by Shannon Kalvar, contains:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An overview of Narrative Combat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A detailed new story-based combat system for D20. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A guide to the tools needed to design and manage encounters under this system. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A chapter of example encounter templates.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The core feats of D20 translated into the new system--and guidelines for how to translate new feats and abilities from other D20 products.</li> </ul>Click on the cover image to be taken to the product page, where you can download a 4-page demo.THE GAME TEXT IN THIS PRODUCT IS 100% OPEN CONTENTADM2015$7.95</blockquote>

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