I’ve always had a lot of respect for people who paint as a hobby. I know I don’t have the patience or skill to do art, so I’m always flabbergasted by what people can make. Great work, and thanks for posting it here!
I like the last sword, a lot of people need life more than others :p, I mean, is it wrong to steal the age of someone who is going to the chair and is going to disappear anyway? I think at least that's a fair deal.
Age is measured from the moment of birth rather than the moment of conception, so fetuses have negative age. I suppose if you killed enough negative-age fetuses, you could live forever.
I mean, it does raise some obvious ethical issues, but...
I ran a battle royale style one shot for a big group recently, based on the Battle Royale module from DMGuild.
Because it was such a large group (11 players) I made a bunch of compromises:
initial 2.5hrs was team based, and sold to the players (in character) as if they could achieve victory together
during this period, each area/activity they wanted to achieve was run as a skill challenge
6 success before 4 failures to succeed on the challenge, DC changed depending on the activity
expending a short/long rest resource or spell slot could get advantage on the roll.
I kept it to 2 areas where they could acquire loot, 2 random travel events and a final longer (8/4) section of the final circle
in the PVP section, the in-game game master announces they must fight on to the death
again with this many players I needed to try and keep the game moving, I used NPCs and lair events to keep from players from hiding in the corner too long
as rounds went on I added another d6 to the lair action damage at the top of the round. Eventually I started upping the DC on the dex checks just to keep things moving as well.
As the other comment said, it was really important to be upfront with the players, out of game, about the challenges of PVP. It was unavoidable for players to be sitting around waiting for the combat to finish with little to do.
I also found delegating some tasks made it easier for me to keep a handle on such a large group:
timekeeper, trying to keep us to the limits I set at the beginning
loot giver, I’d announce how many/type of chest they found which corresponded to how many times they could roll on the loot table, and on which one. One IRL player did this for me and distributed as best he could
I’m running a campaign right now that’s very episodic and I’m starting to feel like I’m just running five room dungeons over and over. This will help me spice things up.
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