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So the question is, do you go after the minion that is more dangerous, or the the boss who controls said minion?
If you go after the minion, the boss gets away.
Go after the boss, the minion does more damage than what can be easily fixed.
Maybe innocent lives
Go after the boss, the minion does more damage than what can be easily fixed.
Maybe innocent lives
(My old group once blew up a corner of the town market just to catch all the villains at once. Then they used healing spells to stabilize the bystanders that were caught in the blast. I said they were crazy. They countered that they were efficient. XD
It sucks when the argument is engaged between you and the rest of the party as the only efficient one in said party and they insist on dragging your ass to the psychiatrist, "for your own good", to deal with your "pyromania" and "mental instability" issues though.
Since I mostly run session-by-session, my method is to have what looks like a simple dungeon crawl or easy challenge turn out to be worse.
"You chase the Ursa Minor into its cave. Behind it is its mother, a much larger Ursa Major..."
"You chase the Ursa Minor into its cave. Behind it is its mother, a much larger Ursa Major..."
A better twist than this is, in my humble opinion, "a second villain appears and mess with the situation without making the first villain make look like small potatoes."
Bonus points if the villains are fighting each other as well as the party.
I'm currently running Dragon Heist, and the bad guys are "all four of the module's BBEGs at once, with each of their factions in conflict".
Bonus points if the villains are fighting each other as well as the party.
I'm currently running Dragon Heist, and the bad guys are "all four of the module's BBEGs at once, with each of their factions in conflict".
I forget the name, but back in the late sixties, there was a half-baked western movie about three gangs (With different styles) robbing the same bank at the same time.
And no, baking it all the way probably wouldn't have helped.
And no, baking it all the way probably wouldn't have helped.
They fought it out, getting the attention of security. So now there's three opposing groups in this lab. The players eventually escaped with 8 out of the 10 organs requested so they only got 80% of their pay. At least they got out at all with their lives and freedom.
Briefly crossed the streams, and am now imagining Pony Shadowrun, and I've never wanted anything more in my life.
And because of this comic, your comments, and this story, I am now following you there! Yay!
After following the bad ones, you found there is a 'more evil one' that is making your bad one feeling bad and you want to help your villain against the worse villain... Any story similar?
More recently, she went a little soft, and got ousted from her own cult for not being nasty enough, and the players unanimously decided they were going to save her life and reform her, even going so far as to break her out of prison.
(That prison break was totally nuts, but I might save that story for a more appropriate prompt.)
We finally have another Spudventure and, at that, a new update of The Forgotten Ones, our 5e Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign!
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