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You acknowledge the choices they made at character creation by using it as leverage to get the action go in a direction you’re comfortable going. In fact, if you tap into those, you’re holding a hand out to the players to participate in the fiction you want to create. (Or 13th Age’s One Unique Things, or Fate’s compels, or Burning Wheel’s and derivatives Beliefs, all RPGs have those now it seems…) You ask loaded questions that clearly state your high level intent for the adventure, yet you still grant your players sufficient agency to let them act to impact the story within their character’s beliefs and motivations.This is where you can tap into D&D’s new background, perks and flaws.

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In that, your role becomes much closer to that of a movie director. How do you plan to get rid of it in less than 24 hours, smartass? GM: Congrats, you stole the duke’s daughter’s jewels, you’re now the most infamous thief in Camoor. GM: Okay, so you won your bet and snuck up to the Eternal Warden, you know he can’t be killed right? What’s your genius plan now? GM: Now that you screwed up and got surrounded by Carnage Orcs, how do you expect to keep the chancellor’s son unharmed? So I suggest the following: Don’t railroad characters, ask them leading questions based on their backgrounds, beliefs and perks instead. The issue at stake here is not so much imposing limits to choices, but how you do it. Many players hate feeling railroaded or worse, being told they can’t do things their characters should be able to do “just because”. There’s only so much you’ve prepared or are comfortable doing on the spot. Having to limit choices available to players is a very common occurrence, it’s not a deadly sin to do it. Asking loaded question can indeed steer a player’s action. And a great game it was and I didn’t need to spend time hacking the adventure’s actual content.Īs I mused on the session during the ensuing weekend, I realized that I might have rediscovered some of the best dirty GMing tricks I’d read in small-press RPGs like Dread.

They never faced the dragon, in fact, the more the town’s governor screamed for someone to take care of it, the more interested in doing other missions the heroes became. I went around the rest of the party asking a mix of open-ended and leading questions, everyone got smoothly into character. Me: Knowing you wouldn’t survive a direct confrontation with the Dragon, how do you think the party should go about it? Me: Hey Thinel (Drow Paladin), how do you feel about this raid on Greenest?Ĭhantal/Thinel (caught off guard): Huh… I think we need to help the city as much as we can. (That’s one of the GMing Principles of both Apocalypse and Dungeon World: Address the characters, not the players.) I decided to have a discussion, not with the players… but directly with the characters. Later that evening, as everyone was settling down, I got an inspiration. I had to do something… I just didn’t feel like spending time doing actual hacking. Old schoolers may just shrug their shoulders and say “That’ll serve as a lesson about D&D returning to its roots!” Breath Weapon: deals on average 33 damage after successful save.

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That got me to crack open the Monster Manual to look the Dragon’s stats up… I totally forgot about it until Dave poked me last Friday asking how I was planning to hack the adventure.

It then made quite a point about how lethal that could be. As written, the encounter assumed level 1 characters would attack it.

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This is part of a series I started way back in 2011.Īs I was getting ready for last week’s Hoard of the Dragon Queen D&D adventure, I noticed one encounters featured an adult blue dragon.

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