Making Your Combats More Interesting

DoubleDM - A podcast by DoubleDM - Mondays

Join us for this episode where we discuss creating the most exciting, spicy, engaging, and/or memorable combat for your D&D and TTRPG tables!We talk about what makes D&D and TTRPG combats fun and what makes them boring and some easy simple tricks you can use to make combats better for your table experience.  Combats are supposed to be tense, dramatic, and engaging experiences for the whole table that shape the story just as much as impactful decisions and with just a few simple tricks and a little know-how, you easily can make your combats feel like epic high stakes situations. Often it really comes down to what you want from combats in the first place and that is why this episode talks about a whole lot of different types of combats and how you can achieve them.For More Information see these timestamps:13:00: What do we want from combat?15:00: Making Combats Flashy!19:00: Change the rules of the combat23:30: Think about the Setting of your combat26:00: Increasing Danger and Risk in Combat35:30: Better Statblocks lead to better Combats39:00: Movement is crucial to Dynamic Combats43:30: Combats should breed Creativity49:30: Combats are Story DevicesYou can find the Show on Social Media and the Web to stay up to date with the latest content, schedules, and more:Website, Twitter, Instagram, Ko-Fi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.