TOPIC: No free action combat?

Adam Guay wrote: Current timing is set to 12 minutes a room to allow more groups to enter. Wouldn't really work with 24 minute rooms.

You wouldn’t need 24 minutes - it could be done in 12 with the right type of puzzle. The hindrance would be no FA during combat until the puzzle is solved.

To prevent people from riding out the room by slow rolling rounds, the monster attacks outside of normal rounds in addition to normal attacks between rounds.

On alternating 30 second intervals an aoe burst comes from the puzzle to people working on it then an aoe attack from the monster attacking.....get caught in between areas and take 1.5 times the damage....area marked off on the floor.

There have been rooms like this in the past and they have been some of my favorites. Who remembers...



I welcome more like this.

Marc D wrote: I remember one of the modules had a somewhat hybrid puzzle/combat in the final room. Solving the puzzle gave you various items that either removed negative status effects or gave you items that were a significant boon in the fight against the monster.

The end room of N3?

I am all for new and different ways to play the game.

I'm. All. In.

Dragon6483 wrote:

Marc D wrote: I remember one of the modules had a somewhat hybrid puzzle/combat in the final room. Solving the puzzle gave you various items that either removed negative status effects or gave you items that were a significant boon in the fight against the monster.

The end room of N3?

That would be it. I was being circumspect because I was in Quick Reply and didn't remember the markdown for spoiler tags.

Ah...I guess I don't see it being spoilers...since we're part the norman and redux module

Wade Schwendemann wrote: I am all for new and different ways to play the game.

I'm. All. In.

+1

Dragon6483 wrote: Ah...I guess I don't see it being spoilers...since we're part the norman and redux module

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Sorry

It probably isn't, but I erred on the side of caution.

SnakeEyes (Eric) wrote: There have been rooms like this in the past and they have been some of my favorites. Who remembers...

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We were inside a tower with no escape but upward. There was a stone in the room and we had to figure out to place our backs to the stone and use our feet to brace against the tower walls to climb up an out of the tower... all the while being attacked by monsters as we traveled upward.

I welcome more like this.

This was my first ever TD, and that was the room that hooked me.

Casters typically have things to do with free actions.

Martial classes typically do not.

If you’re designing a room for the purpose of reducing caster effectiveness, this is one way to do it.

If you’re trying to create a universally challenging circumstance - do something else.

No real need to stop the free actions...you want to cast go to the dm and lose puzzle time. No need to stop free actions.