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It does always bother me in dnd where this tiny little dagger does 1d4 damage, but put that dagger on a stick and call it a spear, and it does 1d6.

Okay, but what about, like, dizziness or confusion?

Gas that causes a reversion in editions😂

I don't know if you've ever been a player but having your gear broken is definitely not fun.

Careful not to just punish martial players for existing. On top of that, do not break player equipment without first mentioning that it is possible or you will absolutely have, for example, the rogue stand up and leave because they have no weapon and a negative str mod so they can only do sneak attack damage.

Mage armor go brr

the bag of gold with a boulder is just the indiana jones trap

Also, make your descriptions of the characters terrifying. “The giant climbs the wall” isn’t as good as “the colossal figure scales the fortress gates; an until now impenetrable guard. The giants eyes are black, almost nonexistent pearls, that seem to stare at you wherever you look. It’s maw is ready to consume… ready to eat. your. flesh.” Roll initiative.

3.5 rake attack?

"Oh no, what kind of trap did I just trigger" "Sorry, bud, but you have cancer."

You get to cancel the arm breaking if you do the sideshow bob voice perfectly when you get hit

I'd use that sparingly to be honest, or only over a short time period; wouldn't be a huge fan if the capability of my character was given frequent reoccurring detriments that lowers their effectiveness. Thought: on the flip side to debuffs, can also give players temporary buffs say, effects given by activating a stationary magic totem.

I'll make the trap obvious, but make it trigger in a different room.

I love how he keeps going back to the rakes

I'm stealing the rakes bit

Oh this is a game that exsists

I've been waiting for an opportunity to feature a gelatinous cube or other slime monster. It'll have skeletons in it that seem alive and bang on the walls of the slime as if they're trapped.

We found a chest alone in a room, I said it was probably a mimic. Ranger greedily puts his whole upper torso into the chest. I was unable to resist saying "I told you so"

I play with a group of late 20-something's and a group of 8-year olds. I've tried similar things on both. The 20-something's fell for it while the kids smelled the trap from a mile away

Me with detect magic: “I don’t have such weaknesses”

As long as you preface it with warnings and perhaps an Insight or Investigation roll if they're suspicious

Seems like a way to simply annony your party instead of creating a fun experience.

sounds good, strong agree on rules lite isn't universal, universal is when it really can account for a setting, I'm also working on a system with a friend. Love the fortune dice, doesn't fit what I'm going for, but accounting for a game about baking is surprisingly not something I considered yet. so far I'm more focused on tech levels, physics and such to allow for isekai stories, any situation where you cross over very different characters or settings. Love your distances, very simple. I admit I prefer metric system and hexes, but that's since I'm a nerd.

I love these systems, and switch between what suits a setting, if I'm in a stable situation I just have food, water, a house, internet etc, no wealth tracking, but if I'm a down on their luck adventurer in a town that's currently dealing with economic inflation since it's easy for the fire immune locals to get valuable gems and metals from the volcano they live at, but hard to grow food, suddenly the cost of each loaf of bread, night at the inn etc should be tracked. Wealth levels are perfect for encouraging just having fun at the carnival, not tracking ammo etc. trade is great for things on the edge of society or transisional periods of escaping capitalism/it encroching on a society. just get the items is 1 I don't use much except with 1 character I recently made who has no concept for numbers, money etc so if it's not a useful item she ignores it, and if someone wants a thing she just gives it. my favorite of these is the cash per day idea, just the whole "you can afford to carry a sword and 3 healing potions, I think you're safe to have a drink.

I love environment usage! most recent combat was inside a house, was awesome, all enemies were spell casters. round 1 I surprise attacked through the window with a mounce, pinning a woman against a wall and slashing at her face, so she'd be stunned enough not to be able to cast on my sister who needed to get the item she was studying, line of sight mattered since our 3rd party member was distracting the 3rd caster so he'd not swarm us, the 3rd caster created darkness since dark vision was a spell he had, later on I could use the hallway to my advantage since a pounce that missed due to the darkness let me sale into the other caster who was no longer being talked down after an escape. Yes I was able to defeat 3 mages whilst the others did other things, it's gurps and I had dodge 11, super jump, claws and brawling 16, I was built to destroy. the thing that's different though is this was GURPS, so it was a 10 or so round combat, since 3 rounds would be fast draw, aim, shoot in a modern setting, or 3 pounces for that character.

I like to think of traps as what logically would someone set up that is good against most adventurers but not a risk to the intended people to be there, nobody would put hidden land mines in their house, but they would totally set something up they can know to avoid, perhaps there's a numonic or other mental key to know what things are trapped, like 13 is unlucky so avoid the 13th tile in on the floor, or blue red blue yellow is the safe pattern of doors. make it a thing the party can learn by paying attention to the enemies. meanwhile if a section of forest is trapped I'll warn players to search by having the remains of an explosion visible for them before reaching that spot, or an animal in a bear trap etc. Anglar fish traps are fun!

Tell me they atleast got to use some of it otherwise thats just annoying

I love the vibe here because thats how i think more dms should be after all if the dm doesn't like the world your in it wont be fun to play

I've got an evocation wizard on my group. AoE is more like guidelines than rules, to him.

You can tell that this guy is reacting to some very specific, repeated bad behavior on the part of his players. That's not to say he reacted correctly, but I do understand.

Great ideas

running my first ever campaign, and I'm glad the algorithm is giving me loads of top tips like this lately. I'll keep this in mind for their next big encounter!

These were fun ideas xD I'm definitely gonna make use of the disorienting gas ahaha thank you!

This advice is also great if combined with an enemy power, like the warlord / tanky opponant commands them all to charge, now giving the players the doubt about what else this entity can command..

You always have great ideas

Helpt my campain thanks

I like the idea of spring traps made my kobalds or some other small creature. They can go over it without setting it off because they are too light to set it off. If someone is heavy enough steps in it they get launched into the ceiling covered with something sticky. They take the initial damage and are now stuck. Alternatively the kobalds use these springs to travel past a chasm. Since they are light they pass it without problem, but if a heavier creature uses it they will fall short.

I like the Indiana Jones style puzzle trap. If you don't step on the floor tiles in the right order you trigger the trap.

Nice tips for combat man, it'll help me especially since I also homebrew my monsters a lot. Can't wait to see more videos, keep the good work 🧡

i've always seen money as a interesting mechanic that forces players to make choices for new tools to aquire, "yes you can grab 2 healing potions for the next dungeon, but if you do you wont be able to afford a new sword." because of this i usually dont mark down prices for things like supplies and roleplaying items (such as buying something for an npc) as that places too many descisions onto one singular system

I believe exactly zero percent of the "stories" on that sub.