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D&D was interesting tonight. First big fight since we started watching #dimension20. I didn't really change my approach but I was more conscious of involving players in describing their spell effects (one player cast mental prison, one was hit with phantasmal killer)...
...and trying to better incorporate the concept of simultaneity, specifically by describing what NPC enemies were in the middle of doing (what they would have done on their next turn) when they died, to give players a sense of achievement, let them know what they'd prevented.
For my players who also watch #dimension20, though, the thing that jumped out to them was my more climactic use of giant pile of dice spells. The party was still in pretty good shape because they had an epic level Ancients Paladin (spell resistance in an aura)...
...but they still felt like they were in a fight, and used some higher level tactics, which is good. I'm actually trying to train them for trickier situations because they have fights brewing with both Orcus and Asmodeus down the line.
I was very glad that I asked @sakunamera what Vasa was most afraid of for Phantamal Killer, though, because the answer she came up with (rust monsters, whose very existence offends her) was better than anything I would have come up with.
@sakunamera So I told her that there was a giant elder rust monster that had just utterly disintegrated a pile of armor and relics of ancient dwarven monarchs and she just *knew* it had a taste for them and would swallow her hammer if she threw it.
@sakunamera (The presence of Dirt, Friend of all Living Things, a high level Paladin, meant that she was not frightened, but the other effects of the spell are not contingent on the frightened condition.)
