#of the night like ''bitch giant bats and ghouls already have stat blocks make them fight some groups of them'' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

andromeda3116 · 23 days ago

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fun things about homebrewing a campaign from the ground up with almost exclusively homebrewed monsters and items: remembering that random encounters don't have to be that complicated, going "if they get too cocky, they get five giant bats to the face" and boom. random encounter.

#listen i have done SO MUCH work homebrewing everything they come up against #but i was thinking about how the dungeon i've built doesnt have enough small encounters and i literally woke up in the middle #of the night like ''bitch giant bats and ghouls already have stat blocks make them fight some groups of them''#they like the balance i've established so far of small encounter-rp-large encounter/some days more heavy on one or the other #but the dungeon had fewer small encounters than i liked #so i ended up creating a mid-size encounter but i was like ''idk if that counts as ''small''...#and then i metaphorically stared into the camera and went ''they're underground. fuckin bats you fool''#dnd #dungeons and dragons #i have four pages of homebrewed content so far on dndbeyond and i'm building maps and interactions from scratch #they're gonna have an optional maze they can solve so i got a $15 labyrinth toy so they can do it irl #they have three forced encounters‚ two bonus bosses‚ a puzzle‚ a fun potion to find‚ an easter egg for the story its based on #one of the forced encounters has a good/evil choice they can make - i'm really confident that they'll pick the good choice #but i created the monster and item they'll get if they choose the evil one anyway because violence is an option #there's a chasm to narrowly cross that's just deep enough to be A Problem but not deadly #a final boss that will be an absolute bitch #minor treasures for the smaller stuff and some really really good ones if they kill the bonus bosses #one really phenomenally incredible potion that will be so amazing they won't want to use it #i even made them a physical map to refer to #i am. very proud. of this dungeon.

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