@silverwizard just reminded me of that d&d campaign I was in where an owlbear attacked and I fed it a bunch of goodberries so it wasn't hungry anymore and so was happy and stopped attacking because I was playing an animal loving druid.... but then the same thing happened with rats, and a giant squid... and just kept happening because the gm just kept motivating our enemies with hunger... eventually he stopped but it happened more times than I expected that goodberry just worked
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in reply to Becky • •That GM also loved set piece fights as the big moment.
So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.
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in reply to Becky • • •Last Sunday:
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.
Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •We needed a great elk heart (among other things) to allow a druid ghost to prepare a potion to heal a treant!
It was force majeure!
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •I 100% agree, but I have only ever really done ttrpg with Sean and that's always been his approach
Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo
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