That positive/negative line of sight concept threw me back to your map drawing video streams. Really interesting idea to break down the dynamics of information in an encounter. Excellent video :)
Your Trap Theory video was the first video I watched and made me sub. All your videos are great advice, and I reference them when having nerd talks at my local gas station.
That's something i haven't been using in my games, nice thoughs on it, Hankerin! Also loved the BMC reference hahahahaha In some points in this videos you spoke just like Floki hahahah
Love the perspective of positive negative LOS.. gives words to the concept for sure... juss wanna add for the comments its aslo 360 above cloud below water and light and dark.. got me thinkin bout flanking now..
Good to see you making videos again. Now, for more content and an idea for more videos let's see some ideas/concepts put to use. Give us some ideas of specific encounters you have used/would like to use.
Thank you, sir! This combined with Darkness and Light really add a lot of atmosphere to an encounter. Simple elements become potentially deadly. Line of Sight and the different party members' ability to see shouldn't be ignored. I don't know but I think Sun Tzu probably used terrain and miniatures to do some tactical studies research ;)
How I get around "tank and spank" is to fundamentally change the nature of movement, by making the little-used "5-foot step" more powerful. Assuming that you haven't otherwise "moved" yet as part of your other actions on your turn: Effects that grant you extra movement (such as the Chronocharm of the Horizon Walker) have no effect on your eligibility to take a “step”. The "step" can be up to half of your racial base land speed (round down to the next 5-foot increment, minimum 5 feet), minus any speed penalties, split up as you please before, after, or inside of (in the case of a full attack action) the other actions where you don't "move". If you move more than 5 feet in this way in your turn, you provoke AoOs after that 5 feet like any other kind of movement. However, you gain a deflection bonus to your AC against these AoOs equal to your Base Attack Bonus (BAB). All rules and effects which affect the original 5-foot step use the new distance for all calculations except for multiplying the distance of your step (which instead uses the original 5 feet). No effect which increases your step distance can cause it to exceed your full racial base land speed. This results in combats where the enemy will frequently attack and then take a "step" to get away from a PC before they can all crowd around, and will position initial engagement at 40-70 feet away so that the PCs have to take a double-move just to get into melee range. They'll use the "withdraw" action liberally to get behind cover.
arbitrary...so many crawls going from corner to corridor to corner to unimportant room to corner, to pointless door, but, great looking maps! you're a superb narrator and thinker, chur.
I would like to see a Room Design that shows non-typical line of sight scenarios so we can visualize and think outside of the box. It seems no matter how much line of sight areas I think of, the players just move back and forth from cover to cover. I think practice sketches in a notebook would help conceive these plans better. I struggle tremendously from making traditional line of sight combat that they easily avoid or exploit and remove the challenge altogether.
It always annoyed me that fighting in D&D often turned into people walking up to one another and trading blows, or people standing away from each other exchanging arrows/bolts/fireballs. Making an encounter feel dynamic is one of the biggest challenges for any table top game, and I appreciate your addressing this topic as one piece of solving that puzzle.
I kind of accidentally did this in a game I was running last year in the Fallout universe. The players were taking on a town occupied by a bunch of tech cultists to capture a key enemy agent, right, and the agent in question had a bodyguard in the form of a heavily cyberneticized gentleman with a big fuckoff laser rifle(like the old school ones, not the ones from 3 onwards). He put the fear of god in them, which being a tech cultist was close to literal seeing as how he worshiped the company which made his gun. He could pick them off from across the map and they couldn't do *shit*. It was a lot of fun seeing them figure out how to get at this guy, was good times. In the end, they figured out that if they just took out the rest of the cultists he would fall back to go get his charge and skedaddle since, you know, he might be a cultist but he's no dummy. So once he bolted, they cornered him and he presented much less of a threat after he was tackled by an angry tribal with a deathclaw gauntlet.
Thank you hank!! Question. How would I show the players the threat without blasting them? I would I tell them that the lizard will spit and that the spittle is deadly so that they will at least consider that they should hide?
I'd like to know too. Maybe a 'test drive' in that it splatters a creature or a part of an object while the players are in line of sight (no pun intended) of it. Seeing the lizard engulf something, which then is utterly destroyed
First reply is a great idea. Showcase the danger at the start, like a grand entrance, describe just how deadly the opponent looks. Another idea is suggest to the players to roll wisdom or knowledge, and if they succeed the difficulty based on the rarity of the opponent (or maybe you can just tell them because a pc might naturally have history with the opponent type) than tell them that "you are aware that this creature spits a big glob of vicious acid venom that can melt a man in one hit." ...but maybe the pcs dont have this knowledge, in which case theyll have to find out the hard way ;)
You should honestly be an actor hankerin. No kidding. You're not fulfilling your potential doing this. Seriously, I wish I had an ounce of your charisma.
The amount of insight that you bring to the hobby never ceases to inspire and amaze, Hankerin!
Your videos akways take me twice as long to get through as they should cos I keep pausing to go write notes for ideas that you've spawned!
Pillarpow!
shilling for subs lol
Frogboy is back. I was wondering how our friend was doing.
Great old-school key mechanics video! Certainly will keep line of sight in mind.
You are always a source of great inspiration for us all, "Key Mechanics by Hankerin" should be a chapter in the DMG
That positive/negative line of sight concept threw me back to your map drawing video streams. Really interesting idea to break down the dynamics of information in an encounter.
Excellent video :)
Love listening to you speak about games Man. You make us better.
It was so good to see a new key mechanics video, thanks hank!
Diggin the edited videos again! Glad you got back into this groove!
Your Trap Theory video was the first video I watched and made me sub. All your videos are great advice, and I reference them when having nerd talks at my local gas station.
You’re so loved! We crave more of you!
Glad to see your still making vids man. Solid content, as always.
Another new video from my favorite madman! Runehammer for Life!!
Good to see another video from you!
Runehammer makes me so inexplicably happy
Nice! Good to see you Hank!
That's something i haven't been using in my games, nice thoughs on it, Hankerin!
Also loved the BMC reference hahahahaha
In some points in this videos you spoke just like Floki hahahah
great break down, fantastic
Love the perspective of positive negative LOS.. gives words to the concept for sure... juss wanna add for the comments its aslo 360 above cloud below water and light and dark.. got me thinkin bout flanking now..
Good to see you making videos again. Now, for more content and an idea for more videos let's see some ideas/concepts put to use. Give us some ideas of specific encounters you have used/would like to use.
Thank you, sir! This combined with Darkness and Light really add a lot of atmosphere to an encounter. Simple elements become potentially deadly. Line of Sight and the different party members' ability to see shouldn't be ignored. I don't know but I think Sun Tzu probably used terrain and miniatures to do some tactical studies research ;)
So much anticipation for ICRPG:MAGIC!
C’mon Hank! Get that delicious artwork in the book!
It's like being a little kid waiting on Christmas! I can't believe wait!!!!
How I get around "tank and spank" is to fundamentally change the nature of movement, by making the little-used "5-foot step" more powerful. Assuming that you haven't otherwise "moved" yet as part of your other actions on your turn:
Effects that grant you extra movement (such as the Chronocharm of the Horizon Walker) have no effect on your eligibility to take a “step”.
The "step" can be up to half of your racial base land speed (round down to the next 5-foot increment, minimum 5 feet), minus any speed penalties, split up as you please before, after, or inside of (in the case of a full attack action) the other actions where you don't "move".
If you move more than 5 feet in this way in your turn, you provoke AoOs after that 5 feet like any other kind of movement. However, you gain a deflection bonus to your AC against these AoOs equal to your Base Attack Bonus (BAB).
All rules and effects which affect the original 5-foot step use the new distance for all calculations except for multiplying the distance of your step (which instead uses the original 5 feet). No effect which increases your step distance can cause it to exceed your full racial base land speed.
This results in combats where the enemy will frequently attack and then take a "step" to get away from a PC before they can all crowd around, and will position initial engagement at 40-70 feet away so that the PCs have to take a double-move just to get into melee range. They'll use the "withdraw" action liberally to get behind cover.
Great stuff as always.
Thanks for yet another awesome video
great vid hank
GODS IS IT TRUE?? MORE KEY MECHANICS FROM OUR LORD HANKERIN???
can tell from your voice you were sick as a dog when recording this. appreciate your dedication as always
HE LIVES!
Bet there are more Key Mechanics than a few! More vids needed to cover it all for sure.
I was looking for the episode whit the lizardboy. Finnaly I found it! Please make it into a separate clip!
arbitrary...so many crawls going from corner to corridor to corner to unimportant room to corner, to pointless door, but, great looking maps! you're a superb narrator and thinker, chur.
Instalike for frogboy intro. Good points on LOS I will try that out next session.
Right on. Gotta go back and watch Trap Theory again. :)
Another great video
I would like to see a Room Design that shows non-typical line of sight scenarios so we can visualize and think outside of the box. It seems no matter how much line of sight areas I think of, the players just move back and forth from cover to cover. I think practice sketches in a notebook would help conceive these plans better. I struggle tremendously from making traditional line of sight combat that they easily avoid or exploit and remove the challenge altogether.
i have been publishing room designs on my patreon, and th e archetypes in ICRPG 2e show several of my fav's
Nice. Really useful stuff
It always annoyed me that fighting in D&D often turned into people walking up to one another and trading blows, or people standing away from each other exchanging arrows/bolts/fireballs. Making an encounter feel dynamic is one of the biggest challenges for any table top game, and I appreciate your addressing this topic as one piece of solving that puzzle.
yeeees, key mechanics is back! delighted to see there is still a bit of non-sense in these increasingly refined videos ;)
I kind of accidentally did this in a game I was running last year in the Fallout universe. The players were taking on a town occupied by a bunch of tech cultists to capture a key enemy agent, right, and the agent in question had a bodyguard in the form of a heavily cyberneticized gentleman with a big fuckoff laser rifle(like the old school ones, not the ones from 3 onwards). He put the fear of god in them, which being a tech cultist was close to literal seeing as how he worshiped the company which made his gun. He could pick them off from across the map and they couldn't do *shit*. It was a lot of fun seeing them figure out how to get at this guy, was good times.
In the end, they figured out that if they just took out the rest of the cultists he would fall back to go get his charge and skedaddle since, you know, he might be a cultist but he's no dummy. So once he bolted, they cornered him and he presented much less of a threat after he was tackled by an angry tribal with a deathclaw gauntlet.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.......Finally a great discussion about mechanics!
So glad for another key mechanics video! Maybe we'll get a RoOm DeSiGn next!
new ones every month on patreon!
Keep it up!
Thank you hank!! Question. How would I show the players the threat without blasting them? I would I tell them that the lizard will spit and that the spittle is deadly so that they will at least consider that they should hide?
I'd like to know too. Maybe a 'test drive' in that it splatters a creature or a part of an object while the players are in line of sight (no pun intended) of it.
Seeing the lizard engulf something, which then is utterly destroyed
First reply is a great idea. Showcase the danger at the start, like a grand entrance, describe just how deadly the opponent looks. Another idea is suggest to the players to roll wisdom or knowledge, and if they succeed the difficulty based on the rarity of the opponent (or maybe you can just tell them because a pc might naturally have history with the opponent type) than tell them that "you are aware that this creature spits a big glob of vicious acid venom that can melt a man in one hit." ...but maybe the pcs dont have this knowledge, in which case theyll have to find out the hard way ;)
just blast them lol
@@patrick.s3356 ouch :P
@@Runehammer1 seems fair
Key Mechanics videos are the old wizards of knowledge now. No longer a young scholar.
Omg. Identity crisis lizard gets me every time! LOL!
more key mechanics!
But what about dimetrodons? Were there dimetrodons?
Haaaaaaaaaaay it's hank!!!!!
New creativity challenge: pick 10 monsters at random. Create 1 or 2 LOS problem encounters for each.
I wanted to be a froggie too....yep
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You should honestly be an actor hankerin. No kidding. You're not fulfilling your potential doing this.
Seriously, I wish I had an ounce of your charisma.
give me a call.