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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9338241" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Seems to me you didn't quite read what I wrote. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>To refresh your memory: it's a given they'll succeed at getting out of the ravine. The roll - just one roll for the whole party - serves as a guide to how easy/painless/quick that success was. If they roll particularly poorly on the party roll, only then do we go to individual rolls to see who took how much pain and-or whether there's any other long-term consequences.</p><p></p><p>Because that's the thing: even the most mundane-seeming of actions (or combats!) can occasionally go wrong and cause medium to long term headaches......</p><p></p><p><em>Yeah, those bandits that attacked us in the woods were a pushover, too bad one of 'em got Jocasta with a poisoned dart and put her down for the week it took us to find someone that could cure it.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>We got clear of the caves OK but scrambling up out of that last ravine was a beast - Falstaff broke four potion vials when he fell, and we were all so exhausted once we finally got out that it took us an extra two days to get back town; and who knows what we missed in that time.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Welp, now we have to go find Terrance - climbing that tower went wrong and he'd be dead if he didn't have</em> Featherfall, <em>but while he was drifting the gale blew him who-knows-how-far away - he could have landed in the next county!</em></p><p></p><p>And in case you think those far-fetched, as a DM I've actually seen the first example happen and as a player I've seen the third. The second is just a continuation of the ravine-climbing example from upthread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9338241, member: 29398"] Seems to me you didn't quite read what I wrote. :) To refresh your memory: it's a given they'll succeed at getting out of the ravine. The roll - just one roll for the whole party - serves as a guide to how easy/painless/quick that success was. If they roll particularly poorly on the party roll, only then do we go to individual rolls to see who took how much pain and-or whether there's any other long-term consequences. Because that's the thing: even the most mundane-seeming of actions (or combats!) can occasionally go wrong and cause medium to long term headaches...... [I]Yeah, those bandits that attacked us in the woods were a pushover, too bad one of 'em got Jocasta with a poisoned dart and put her down for the week it took us to find someone that could cure it. We got clear of the caves OK but scrambling up out of that last ravine was a beast - Falstaff broke four potion vials when he fell, and we were all so exhausted once we finally got out that it took us an extra two days to get back town; and who knows what we missed in that time. Welp, now we have to go find Terrance - climbing that tower went wrong and he'd be dead if he didn't have[/I] Featherfall, [I]but while he was drifting the gale blew him who-knows-how-far away - he could have landed in the next county![/I] And in case you think those far-fetched, as a DM I've actually seen the first example happen and as a player I've seen the third. The second is just a continuation of the ravine-climbing example from upthread. [/QUOTE]
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