{"id":61,"date":"2008-06-23T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-06-23T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:37:52","slug":"dealing-with-the-whiff-factor-in-dnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/dealing-with-the-whiff-factor-in-dnd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with the whiff-factor in DnD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Played some DnD last night. It was good.  I will talk about that more in a bit, but for now, an idea for combating the frustration of repeating missing in a fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Angry Meter<br \/>\nIf you miss, you get a token. A Big bowl of glass stones that you get to grab from when you miss &#8212; a nice tactile way of portraying building anger. Conceptually it transforms a miss from &#8220;a whiff&#8221; into &#8220;I didn&#8217;t hit you yet&#8230;but I&#8217;m getting closer&#8221;.<br \/>\nYou can turn in five tokens on a future roll, after the roll has been made.<br \/>\nIn Heroic Tier: they&#8217;re worth a +5<br \/>\nIn Paragon Tier: +10<br \/>\nIn Epic Tier: +15<br \/>\nThat way, if you would miss anyway by spending tokens, you wouldn&#8217;t spend them and just rack up another for the pile.<br \/>\nCritical Fumbles give you two tokens, because 1&#8217;s make us really angry&#8230; alternately, if you want a fumble to suck more, you lose all your stones when you roll a 1.<br \/>\nYou lose all your stockpiled tokens during an extended rest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of like it&#8230; but I&#8217;m not sure a game with so much &#8220;Marked enemy&#8221; stuff going on needs another token floating around the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Played some DnD last night. It was good. I will talk about that more in a bit, but for now,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d20","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}