So, I like stories where everyone is competent, and as a GM I try to run my villains as playing to win. My goal is for the players to have a good time, but the enemies will use every resource at their disposal to achieve their aims: they will retreat if continuing to give battle is a bad idea, they will go scorched earth if...
Blades in the dark, the Forged in the dark games, or White lies have a way to do this.
First, the character do the plan, not the players. It means that the planning phase is just an ellipse and players have a limited flashback possibilities (ah yes, but in fact it was a possibility so my character knows that … or has the need tool to …) and they use clocks (4 to 8 pieces pies that are filled step by step, ok so one more tick on the “general red alert” clock, only to remaining).
Why not rolling advantage with two d20 at once? Why playing DnD only? I needed 2d10 to play Ironsworn 10d10 for COPS, 2d6 for Dungeon World, 4d6 for Fate, 10d6 for Shadowrun, …
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I had such player at my table but it was more that they could ignore what they knew. So they still were doing perception checks and I was still responding but randomly, without saying it.
Once, for a critical failure on a perception check, I said they saw the lord was too bright, too clean, and wait are those scales? Could be a dragonborn or even more? They spend the full enquiry rejecting the possibility to have a dragon in disguise. Sad for them.
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Project Hail Mary? The hero is a former researcher and a junior/middle school teacher. It is used in the fiction as an excuse to make science understandable. I understand this level of science so I am biased but I think it is good enough.
It always disappoints me when I think of this, and this community which has been neglected, mocked, … is unable to learn that those behaviours are bad. It’s not all of them, sure. But they should unite against toxic masculinity behaviours. And they don’t. People don’t learn enough.
Stil GM on a two years long campaign. High fantasy which started as Dungeon World and is now Fate.
The funny thing they still haven’t found is that, except 2 NPCs they met, all others are honest and tell the truth. Some are blatantly incompetent or stupid though.
[System-agnostic] Running intelligent and informed adversaries that feel fair
So, I like stories where everyone is competent, and as a GM I try to run my villains as playing to win. My goal is for the players to have a good time, but the enemies will use every resource at their disposal to achieve their aims: they will retreat if continuing to give battle is a bad idea, they will go scorched earth if...
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