Making Your Combats More Interesting

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.

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DoubleDM is a show by two passionate game masters, Nils and Emil, where we take you on a fun, insightful, and inspiring journey into the world of Tabletop Roleplaying every single week!We dive deep into key aspects of running TTRPGs like Dungeons and Dragons, Masks: A New Generation, or Cyberpunk Red, from crafting great and compelling stories and plots to developing new and exciting homebrew content for your games. Every Episode comes packed with actionable Game Mastering Advice ready for you to implement directly, Ideas and Inspiration for you to use, develop, and expand upon, and a massive amount of Insight from two Game Masters that have run games for nearly 25 years combined!And then we also invite and host guests on our shows that can give you a peek behind the curtain of their projects and products and share their insightful wisdom with us and you!So come on, sit down, Play Games, have fun, and don't forget to talk about it! Join us now on the Journey that is DoubleDM!Do you have a topic you want us to cover? Hit us up on social media (@doubledmpod nearly everywhere) or email us at doubledm@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.