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Thanks so much for sharing! This is really helpful for me to hear—I'm actively working on updates and revisions while running my own campaign right now.

If you have a moment to field a follow-up question: When you say almost everything they've fought has been owl-bear-ish, have those been lone owl bears? (Still trying to figure out how many HP is okay to make sure fights don't drag. 20 seems to be just about the upper end for a solo for my group, but the "d4 [number appearing]" on the Knave 2e owl bear made me think to ask!)

wharfjetty32 days ago

oh! good question, happy to help. Yes, I'm talking about lone weird big creatures. A giant flame spitting mantis, a dune-esque-worm-person-librarian, etc. For groups of lesser things or people I'm using bandits, but my group hasn't _fought_ these as much. Last night I used a Giant as a ~super mutant and it was actually a bit too much (they ran away though, wisely).

I'd use these as groups too, but my players wouldn't take them on (as long as I telegraph well). We've found that the PCs are real squishy, but they also keep spending their money on roleplay things instead of like, medicine or armor.

I also use swarm creatures (e.g. 100 hand sized aggressive moths...lots of bugs in my game, I guess) but I treat these as environmental hazards because unless you have a specific tool or weapon, fighting these doesn't make sense.

Jason Tocci32 days ago

Great, thanks! My players are similarly adept at avoiding combat, especially when they can talk their way out of it. (Last session they put on a concert with a Meat Loaf impersonator and a hand-painted sign to tell a bunch of raiders that they didn’t kill their leader, offering a chance to parley.) Lots of bugs for us too, and took me too long to think of using swarm rules even for larger enemies.

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