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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by punkcoder@lemmy.world to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

The goal was to find out if the minion was killed at then end of the monologue, since the party has been invested in thinking that the minion was the BBEG.

Well that didn't go as planned.

Edit: Apparently posting images is down at the moment, so had to troubleshoot.

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[-] Crul@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Monologue implies that a second party isn't necessary, just an audience.

Also I'd have had the BBEG either call in another minion or use Speak with the Dead or Revivify. What a fucking power move that would be. Man, I'm going to use that now.

[-] punkcoder@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Wow, I wish I had thought of that.

[-] Vendificate@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Great options. Alternatively, I would have had the BBEG just keep monologuing to the corpse without breaking stride. Maybe only realize the kill at the end of the speech as if the minions death was both accidental and irrelevant. ("Do you understand now?! ... Oh. Yuck. Somebody clean this up!")

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 10 months ago

Party: "That was the easiest BBEG ever. Wtf, DM?"

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Was this like one of those yellow minions and Gru critted him?

Also do people roll for interactions between two NPCs? I figured that unless PCs are directly involved, the DM just says what happens.

[-] punkcoder@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The idea is that the party was seeing the event as a remote viewing… the minion was the person that they ‘thought’ was the BBEG until his boss showed up. The idea was that they were going to watch him get beat down while the boss was monologuing and only at the end it didn’t matter if he lived or died. I was really trying to ratchet up the bosses evil meter. I had measured out the rolls so that there would have been a 50/50 shot of him being dead on the 3rd roll, but crit’d the 2nd roll.

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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