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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 7:32AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 10, 2010
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Eh, I like a little role play. I wouldn't want to do nothing but role play though. Think of it this way: I like role playing someone who is allowed to solve his problems with violence.
Allowed to, of course! But it is cool to have a choice! Fight the owlbears or sneak around them, befriend them or "bribe" them with meat. Fight the bandits, bribe them with gold, join them or parley a meet with their leader or fool them into fighting amongst eachother. Fighting is a valid option, but I like it when you have other options that feels just as valid too!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 7:34AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 29, 2005
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Eh, I like a little role play. I wouldn't want to do nothing but role play though. Think of it this way: I like role playing someone who is allowed to solve his problems with violence.
Allowed to, of course! But it is cool to have a choice! Fight the owlbears or sneak around them, befriend them or "bribe" them with meat. Fight the bandits, bribe them with gold, join them or parley a meet with their leader or fool them into fighting amongst eachother. Fighting is a valid option, but I like it when you have other options that feels just as valid too!
Those are all great to turn a combat into a skill challenge.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 7:36AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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Not really; D&D in general doesn't have good systems for non-combat stuff.
What kind of system do you really need to roleplay and tell a story?
If you're good at it, none.
If not, then there are systems which encourage non-combat storytelling a lot better than D&D does, principally by having non-binary successes, and actually devoting significant resources to that part of the game.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 7:38AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 17, 2003
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I'm in four different 4E campaigns currently and only rarely do any of them have more than a single combat encounter per session (I can really only think of two main ones and one of those was technically a single encounter with a death trap in between two waves of enemies and no chance to rest), but we've often had sessions with no combat or no combat to speak of... I don't consider it to be a combat when the DM's doesn't even have me roll for initiative during an honor duel against a drunken noble, but instead has me make a Charisma check to see how well I played to the crowd while I demolished him.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 7:52AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 10, 2010
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I'm in four different 4E campaigns currently and only rarely do any of them have more than a single combat encounter per session (I can really only think of two main ones and one of those was technically a single encounter with a death trap in between two waves of enemies and no chance to rest), but we've often had sessions with no combat or no combat to speak of... I don't consider it to be a combat when the DM's doesn't even have me roll for initiative during an honor duel against a drunken noble, but instead has me make a Charisma check to see how well I played to the crowd while I demolished him.
Nice!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:02AM
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one shots i run tend to be heavy on combat, but my campaigns have a good bit of rp along with combat. in one game we have had a session with no combat, but typically in my campaigns there is at least one encounter, even if it is just a skirmish.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:28AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 19, 2004
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My games tend to be a solid mixture of combat and roleplay. That being said we do often have games where the entire session (6-8 hours) is spent without combat. Not too long ago we had 3 sessions in a row with no combat at all. One of my players (a new player to the game and campaign) was getting a little fidgety about it. So I sat down and talked to her and helped build her character's persona up so she could better enter the conversations which has handily solved the problem. All that being said I really dislike skill challenges as written. I like skill challenges that come in phases, with changes every time someone succeeds or fails. That means my skill challenges need to be a lot more complicated and flowchart based than the normal ones. You dont roll 4-8 times before getting the first success/failure in the narrative, you roll maybe twice. I hate to plug myself (especially when I haven't had time to finish editing and posting the first session) but if you want to listen I have the raw audio from one of my sessions up here: everygrain.blogspot.com/
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 11:15AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 30, 2010
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It depend on the session the non-combat/combat ratio...i have DM'd 90% combat session and up to no-combat session. I try to have atleast 1 encounter per session atleast, thought.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 3:10PM
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My games tend to be a solid mixture of combat and roleplay. That being said we do often have games where the entire session (6-8 hours) is spent without combat. Not too long ago we had 3 sessions in a row with no combat at all. One of my players (a new player to the game and campaign) was getting a little fidgety about it. So I sat down and talked to her and helped build her character's persona up so she could better enter the conversations which has handily solved the problem.
All that being said I really dislike skill challenges as written. I like skill challenges that come in phases, with changes every time someone succeeds or fails. That means my skill challenges need to be a lot more complicated and flowchart based than the normal ones. You dont roll 4-8 times before getting the first success/failure in the narrative, you roll maybe twice.
I hate to plug myself (especially when I haven't had time to finish editing and posting the first session) but if you want to listen I have the raw audio from one of my sessions up here:
everygrain.blogspot.com/
A solid mixture imo, is the best for everyone. The campaign I am in presently, is mostly combat hack and slash. I'd like a little more roleplaying. Like any. That said, if I were going to err to any one side, it would definitely be in favor of more combat. My personal ideal mix is probably about 60% combat, 40% RP. I imagine I'd quickly lose interest if I didn't get to blow things up with some regularity.
3 sessions without combat? I'd be fidgity too. You'd have to be a hell of a story teller for me to not end up drooling all over myself in boredom!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 3:12PM
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Most of my games have combats at most every other session, usually closer to every 3rd or 4th. I don't like little 'war of attrition, use up resources even though we know who's going to win the fight' battles. I like big, plot-relevant, set-piece encounters.
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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