20
Do abilities like familiars, and scribe wizard's manifest minds etc make scouting/dungeons unfun? Where's the narrative tension? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by Knitwear@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is the problem I have as well. With a group new to D&D, it's not so bad - they're likely to take creatures which are cool, but not necessarily stealthiest or most situationally-fitting. It's okay to have the bandit ask "...wait, why is a raven this far into a giant underground mine?"

Then you have the veteran players who have invisible, indefinite, sometimes incorporeal familiars... the most egregious was one who would cast through his nigh-undetectable familiar, making many encounters moot as the familiar could just ping down stuff without ever being spotted in return.

this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
20 points (85.7% liked)

Dungeons and Dragons

10778 readers
6 users here now

A community for discussion of all things Dungeons and Dragons! This is the catch all community for anything relating to Dungeons and Dragons, though we encourage you to see out our Networked Communities listed below!

/c/DnD Network Communities

Other DnD and related Communities to follow*

DnD/RPG Podcasts

*Please Follow the rules of these individual communities, not all of them are strictly DnD related, but may be of interest to DnD Fans

Rules (Subject to Change)

Format: [Source Name] Article Title

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world