Comments on: The Path to Victory: Checkmate http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/2009/11/the-path-to-victory-checkmate/ Inspired 4e Design Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andy http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/2009/11/the-path-to-victory-checkmate/comment-page-1/#comment-2804 Andy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:19 +0000 http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/?p=1293#comment-2804 I like it, but you should add a disclaimer that you need to be very aware of player abilities. It's true that 4th Edition offers less opportunities than other editions for players to pull crazy combinations that you never saw coming, but there's always the chance that in a "Kill the king" battle your players could figure out a cheap way to bypass all the other enemies. So, just keep your eye out for that. I really like the concept of Stalemate battles, they seem like they'd encourage very creative thinking. Cool stuff there. The Pacifist Checkmate seems also interesting, although you'd have to do a really good job of calculating XP according to monsters killed. I don't know how many DMs calculate XP on the fly, the only DMs I've seen do it just calculate based on their preplanned encounter size. I like it, but you should add a disclaimer that you need to be very aware of player abilities. It’s true that 4th Edition offers less opportunities than other editions for players to pull crazy combinations that you never saw coming, but there’s always the chance that in a “Kill the king” battle your players could figure out a cheap way to bypass all the other enemies. So, just keep your eye out for that.

I really like the concept of Stalemate battles, they seem like they’d encourage very creative thinking. Cool stuff there. The Pacifist Checkmate seems also interesting, although you’d have to do a really good job of calculating XP according to monsters killed. I don’t know how many DMs calculate XP on the fly, the only DMs I’ve seen do it just calculate based on their preplanned encounter size.

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