encounter building Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/encounter-building/ D&D / Role Playing Sat, 23 Jan 2021 03:36:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg encounter building Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/encounter-building/ 32 32 Using Monsters Beyond the Statblock: Goblinoids https://www.tribality.com/2020/12/22/using-monsters-beyond-the-statblock-goblinoids/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/12/22/using-monsters-beyond-the-statblock-goblinoids/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:02:18 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=31790 Recently, I’ve been feeling a little stuck in my encounter building. So, I decided to take a big picture look at what my process is, and I realized I really don’t have one beyond these two questions:  Do these enemies make sense in the world?  Would this encounter challenge the party? Those are two great questions, but something was still missing. I end up running combat encounters without the same complexity and nuance that I might run a social encounter. […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/12/22/using-monsters-beyond-the-statblock-goblinoids/feed/ 0 Challenge: Think of multiple solutions for your next encounter https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/27/challenge-think-of-multiple-solutions-for-your-next-encounter/ https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/27/challenge-think-of-multiple-solutions-for-your-next-encounter/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:00:05 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=28486 We’ve all seen the classical combat encounters while traveling between cities. Monsters appear, and there is only one way through: killing them. It is often done to burn some character abilities or spell slots before a big confrontation. Maybe it’s just a random encounter that details a group of bandits. That’s pretty open for the DM and players to interpret the situation the way they like. Maybe the players aren’t looking for a fight and decide to give them some […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/27/challenge-think-of-multiple-solutions-for-your-next-encounter/feed/ 1 Unearthed Arcana: Encounter Building Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2016/10/11/unearthed-arcana-encounter-building-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2016/10/11/unearthed-arcana-encounter-building-breakdown/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:39:56 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=18293 Huh, new UA today, and on what is for some of us a holiday. I guess WotC doesn’t take Indigenous Peoples’ Day off? Either that, or they decided it should be a gift-giving holiday. Anyway, today Mearls is tackling an alternate approach to encounter building. Overall, we see very little expansion or revision of DM-facing content, and especially not with something as bone-dry as encounter building. What Came Before It’s fairly rare in discussing UA articles that one really needs […]

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