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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Qualir" data-source="post: 1558391" data-attributes="member: 17391"><p>I never have a problem when delivering the final villainous rant to my players. Most of us used to play with the same DM, who great storyteller but he always wanted to win <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> .  To accomplish his evil ends, the DM would declare that the party was attacked by boxed text. Once I started DMing   (we all got tired of wandering damage and other such DM abuse) the players were so conditioned with the "attack by boxed text" that they never thought to actually try to short cut it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> . As new players have joined our group, the older players have stopped them from short cutting by saying "Ah-ah-ah, you can't act while be attacked by boxed text."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Nobody complains. No actions are taken that have any effect on combat. Durations don't expire during boxed text attacks for players or villains. I give a speech and a dance. The players sometimes retaliate in kind. Then, the nasty bad villain gets his hiny kicked, but not before he gets to gloat about how it can't possibly happen. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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