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B010 - Campaign Builder - Foundations: Building Dynamic Encounters
Dynamic Encounters can add chaos and complications... for good or for ill. So how do you keep it on the side of good? In this episode, Dan and Adam run through the common issues that they've run into with designing and managing dynamic encounters and how they've managed to troubleshoot these issues. From downtime to puzzles to interrupting a conversation with combat, they cover the gamut of dynamic encounters and even cover when to bail on the encounter and just move on.
Takeaways:
- Variety is the spice of life for encounters.
- Know the difference between dwindling resources and character fatigue.
- Occasionally tempting or goading the players forward can have their own agency drag them into the next part of a dynamic encounter.
- Understand what your triggering action is, and why it will trigger.
- At higher levels, when the players are operating like experts and superheroes, start to require combinations of skill checks to pass some encounters.
- Not every failure has to be life and death. But every failure - and every success - does need to have a consequence.
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Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe
Logo by: Kate Skidmore
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Dynamic Encounters can add chaos and complications... for good or for ill. So how do you keep it on the side of good? In this episode, Dan and Adam run through the common issues that they've run into with designing and managing dynamic encounters and how they've managed to troubleshoot these issues. From downtime to puzzles to interrupting a conversation with combat, they cover the gamut of dynamic encounters and even cover when to bail on the encounter and just move on.
Takeaways:
- Variety is the spice of life for encounters.
- Know the difference between dwindling resources and character fatigue.
- Occasionally tempting or goading the players forward can have their own agency drag them into the next part of a dynamic encounter.
- Understand what your triggering action is, and why it will trigger.
- At higher levels, when the players are operating like experts and superheroes, start to require combinations of skill checks to pass some encounters.
- Not every failure has to be life and death. But every failure - and every success - does need to have a consequence.
Available On: iTunes | Spotify | Podbean | YouTube
Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe/Whatever when you listen!
Social: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Email: [email protected]
Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe
Logo by: Kate Skidmore
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