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  1. Stephan Hornick

    RPT Newsletter #223 | Mission-Style Roleplaying – Part I

    Mission-Style Roleplaying – Part I From JohnnFour | Published ?? Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #223 Mission-Style Roleplaying Combat in RPGs is a physical, tangible, visceral thing. In many games, combat stuff takes up 75% or more of a character sheet. When the fighting breaks out, you have...
  2. Stephan Hornick

    RPT Newsletter #1,158 | How Can You Make Combat Flow?

    How Can You Make Combat Flow? By JohnnFour | Published June 18, 2021, updated July 24, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,158 Recently, I’ve been talking about crummy combats. They kill entire campaigns if you let them. And the remedies I’m seeing out there don’t really make a dent. You can...
  3. Stephan Hornick

    RPT Newsletter #1,178 | 4 Ways To Surprise Players Who Know All The Monster Stats

    4 Ways To Surprise Players Who Know All The Monster Stats From JohnnFour | Published November 1, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,178 Brief Word From Johnn I don't know about you, but my Murder Hobos know the monster guide inside and out. So I asked guest writer Jonathan Hardin for ideas...
  4. Stephan Hornick

    RPT Newsletter #1,148 | 3 Round Combat Plans for Lightning Combats - Part I

    3 Round Combat Plans for Lightning Combats - Part I From Johnn Four | Published March 8, 2021, updated May 16, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,148 In Faster Combat, a Three Round Combat Plan is how your combat will end after your side has had three licks against the other side. Why would...
  5. Stephan Hornick

    RPT Newsletter #018 | 10 Ways To Make Your Ogres More Intimidating

    10 Ways To Make Your Ogres More Intimidating From JohnnFour | updated May 20, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #018 Make them cunning Help the players make overconfident mistakes by playing up ogres as dumb and slow Attacking ogres focus on spell casters first–with ogre-size rocks hurled at...
  6. Stephan Hornick

    How combat can ruin the entire game

    Recently, @JohnnFour sent out his newsletter with quite an interesting title: This Ruined My Entire Game I was instantly intrigued. He listed several personal experiences with bad combat. For those of you that don't receive his newsletter yet, for your convenience please find it below: This is...
  7. TheRoeler

    Combat log in Campaign Logger

    Does anyone use Campaign Logger to log actual combat rounds. I tried it once and it is quite a lot to keep track of but it was fun to look over the combat later on and see how it developed blow by blow. An example of this would be: @PC attacks @Enemy1 with his sword for 12 points of damage...
  8. JohnnFour

    Damage Type and Severity Infographic

    This is interesting: Not sure what to do with it.
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