of the orcs cool now they get to set them free get some inside information and are better informed as they delve deeper and a simple technique you can use in almost any combat encounter is to have the villains carry on conversations with the characters as they fight just a few sentences each round but there is no reason you need to let combat halt the possibility of social interaction in fact both at once rather makes the whole affair much more better much more better much much better because you're hitting two pillars at once by the way if you're enjoying this video or just like bacon please give me a thumbs up and let me know down in the comments what other food goes best with bacon in fact entire bacon recipes are NUMBER_TOKEN welcome your love for bacon is appreciated another pitfall i see is games that are almost NUMBER_TOKEN social interactions these kind of seem to be a trend these days especially on twitch where it seems like almost every d d game is trying to be the next critical role and i'm sure it happens in non-stream games too but why well because lots of us watch d d shows like critical role or high rollers or whatnot we see them doing lots of social interactions and talking in character and we just assume that's the optimal way to run a dnd game well it might be depending on your player's preferences but it might be a horrible way to run your game too and i know those shows have combat and exploration too but come on come on they do tend to emphasize social interactions a lot of them are voice actors and that's kind of what they do best my advice is to not assume that what works for a popular d d show will work for your d d game nor to assume that your players will have the same preferences as the actors on those shows finally i think lots of groups tend toward having lots of social interactions because it is the easiest way for a dungeon master to run a game filling up a game session and table time with talky talky with a variety of npcs requires the least amount of prep time and planning from the game master on the other hand developing well thought out adventures and dungeons that feature good exploration and encounters is far more challenging oh that's right i i did promise you a rant on people saying role playing when they really mean social interactions didn't i well here we go the entire game is role playing when you talk to the shopkeeper with a funny voice you're role playing when you swing a sword because you're a fighter instead of casting a spell you're role-playing when you're sneaking into the room opening the chest and checking it for a false bottom you're role-playing the entire game is role-playing so please can we just start saying social interactions instead dude i'd even settle for talkie talkie a term i rather like or or whatever else you want to call it just not role playing hockey talky is just a subset of role-playing there there satisfied there's my rant was that good enough was that dramatic enough did i make my point lots of people are like unsubscribe you suck goodbye welcome and goodbye i guess number two combat let us define combat shall we when words fail you you relay one on your persuasion check or you just feel like being a murder hobo combat is when you resort to physical violence
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