Now this week I am exploring a few concepts, taking it slowly while creating a few bits here and there for potential future adventures.
So let’s sit down, grab a coffee and roll into tonight’s encounter!
Simplicity is Best
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Now all of the above are simple re-skins of an existing creature stat-block, or two different ones to be precise, but it is something that truly makes my life easier and my games richer.
The majority of the stat blocks are for the humble guard.
The humble guard is nothing overly special but we have them everywhere. By adding a trait, changing weapons or changing their stats we can create variety within our encounters. In the above cases they should probably move to CR1/4 instead of CR1/8 but – I wont sweat the small stuff.
The other stat block I used, or took inspiration from, was the Cult fanatic
This one I took the spell casting but that was about it and gave it to Sophia – wanting to have something a bit more challenging in the opposing force than just swords, axes and arrows. By tweaking existing statblocks we create variety and, also, can avoid players meta-gaming to know exactly what we are throwing at them. By changing the stats behind the dice rolls we create a better position to move forward from.
A small one tonight but it’s ‘my week off’ so I wasn’t even planning on doing this much! Don’t forget to come back over the weekend and lastly, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
Brazen Wolfe Tabletop 