6 Types of Non-Combat Encounters for your TTRPG!
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I love that swordbreaker idea! The ideas in this video are wonderful!!
I agree. It sort of matches a couple factions in my world. I’m probably going to apply this to that somehow in an upcoming game at some point.
_"Conflict with no obvious solution."_
3:45 Misunderstanding
5:30 Mystery
6:54 Threat
8:18 Game
9:13 Shop
11:05 A Surprise!
These are awesome. "Conflict with no obvious solution" is great general advice for encounter design. Thanks for sharing this!
I was startled at the title of this video: I usually find myself muttering, "this game would be great if people could just get over all the fighting."
In a world of blood and ale this is a wonderful breath of fresh air - bravo!!
Earlier today I realized I needed more non-combat encounters in my current game. I thought to myself I wonder if JP has made any videos on this....lol
My divination magic at work!
My favorite random encounter is called the Swordmaster.
Players hear fighting and arrive just in time to see an Orc disarm a young elf.
The orc is obviously powerful and intimidating. The elf if the PC's are familiar is definitely on the younger side.
Now if the PC's wait they see several other come forward and help the fallen one to their feet.
As the Orc begins to instruct them on the mistakes made and how to correct them.
The Orc is a Master Swordsman hired to teach some young elven nobles.
If the players jump in to fight the Orc without stopping to understand the situation or making any attempt to look around the elven apprentices jump to their masters defense and may even bring official consequences upon the party.
Love it!
When making random encounter tables I always resolve a third of the space to social encounters or encounters that do not immediately lead to a combat.
I love all of JP Coovert's videos! I keep adding more and more of these wonderful zines to my binder, and I can just grab and Go for my Dungeon Crawl Classics home game. I plugged in Jacques the Vampire from Unscrupulous Emporiums a few games ago, and now he's become a great friend to our party.
Love it!
I think, the thing is roleplaying is fun. So it's very easy to make non-combat encounters fun.
That's why people need advice on how to make maths fun. Cause frankly, tabletop roleplaying is at its best when it's creative problem solving and social. Imo combat is last-resort stuff.
There are some really great ideas in here! I'm looking forward to the full zine!
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed the content!
Mysteries are a big favourite for me too. Almost to the point where I have to remind myself sometimes that not everything needs to be one 🙈
#3: The Dragon, Karen. That is nightmare fuel! 😂
I've had a ton of fun recently with the kinds of people who'll stop characters on the street to try and get them to sign a petition, or invest in a scheme, or help spread a religion.
Living in cities as long as I have, there's a ton of weird and wonderful folk I can pull from. What if that street corner preacher was a dragon who got angry when people ignored her!?
Yes! Perfect!
I ran a one-shot without any combat encounters, and my players had a blast! We used Kids On Brooms and set our adventure in a summer camp for wizards. Complete minigames in exchange for badges type of deal.
that sounds so fun!!!
I love JP’s videos!!!
The man never disappoints
Thanks
Hah! These are actually really good!
Cool ieas
Hey JP, I was wondering if you thought of Flik doing a book on pantheon creation since you've done locations.
I’ve never used too much of that stuff in my games so I’m not sure. I think it will more likely show up in the one shot adventures like the Temple of the Waking Thread zine I made (in the shop soon).
So this may be redundant question, but have you ever drawn a modern city map for like a ttrpg set in modern times.
Good video! I agree on the shops. Magic item shops are boring. Get inventive and weird. They don't have to be useful -- just look at most stores irl. Cool, expensive, basically useless stuff for people with excess cash to add to their "collections" and for the rest to just ogle and gasp at in awe. For that matter, museums and galleries can be fun too, especially in a fantasy setting.
Please make more dnd related maps
And make paper dnd characters plz
You should try out heroforge maybe you’ll like it
Is Bustling Streets... still available on the patreon?
The PDF is, yes! The physical zine will be available in my shop in a month or two.
Misunderstanding and mystery! I feel like they just add a lot of depth to the game!
Timestamps would`ve been helpful
Very much so.