Assorted Nonsense and Ramblings

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
starbowdream
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here’s a secret i don’t wany my players to know about our tabletop game - sometimes i plan puzzles/scenarios that don’t actually have a fixed solution, and instead will be solved when i think they’ve come up with a cool solution

like obviously you can’t do that if you’re setting a riddle or something, but i just remember one time they were in a shapeshifter duel. they needed to pass through to the next room by duelling a magical being that could change into different things by saying ‘i am a [whatever]’. the party was also given the power to do this

so, for instance, if she said ‘i am a fish’, they could say ‘i am a fisherman’, and she could counter that with ‘i am a sword’, going back and forth with different bodies that can beat each other in a fight

i didn’t have an endgame here. i was just going to say they won when they’d gone long enough to impress her, or lost if they can’t think of anything. that was the scenario, as written

but in the course of the scene, my players ‘figured out’ that they had to make her say 'i am a door’, because that was what they were looking for, and started to chain together an impressive string of responses that ultimately led them there. and i started to encourage that, because that’s smart as hell! way better than what i had planned

and that’s what i mean - as a dm, give your players space to figure things out and change the scene in ways you hadn’t anticipated. it’s fun!