firvulag
July 20th, 2023, 20:25
This is a DnD 5e related question. Specifically using the Curse of Strahd commercial product.
Whenever I take an encounter that's pregenerated for the adventure and attempt to make alterations it seems that the npc's become "broken" when attempting to roll combat or spells on their respective tokens. I feel like I must be doing something wrong, so I'm hoping that someone else has had similar issues.
An example: The Nighthag/Bonegrinder encounter. The group I'm dm'ing took the time to "case" the windmill and learn Morgantha's habits of travelling to Barovia around a certain time. So they came up with a complicated plan to waylay and ambush her on the ol Svalich road to make the eventual windmill encounter easier. Obviously I want to encourage this type of play because it shows the party using their brains instead of their muscle to confront challenges. So I took the original solo Morgantha encounter that was packaged with Strahd and tried to alter it. I unchecked (reset) her placement and then brought up my own generic forest battlemap and reset her there in preparation of the ambush. Then locked it and got ready for them. As they approached I went ahead and activated the encounter and sent it to the combat tracker, which also activated it on the new battlemap, I placed the players tokens and the ambush ensued.
Unfortunately when anyone tried to roll combat dice on the Morgantha token (on both the battlemap or the combat tracker) and error/log box would pop up and it would not resolve the action. WE could still do it manually however by making the same rolls in the chat box. And damage could still be applied normally by rolling THAT on the appropriate token.
Later they fought the final two hags at Bonegrinder which again I had altered by deleting Morgantha from the encounter before activating it....and then had the same thing happen (no map change this time....only a deletion of one npc from the encounter).
Sorry for the length of this I just didn't know how to explain what's happening without the detailed example. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Anyone have any advice or experienced this before?
Thanks in advance for the help.🙏✌
Whenever I take an encounter that's pregenerated for the adventure and attempt to make alterations it seems that the npc's become "broken" when attempting to roll combat or spells on their respective tokens. I feel like I must be doing something wrong, so I'm hoping that someone else has had similar issues.
An example: The Nighthag/Bonegrinder encounter. The group I'm dm'ing took the time to "case" the windmill and learn Morgantha's habits of travelling to Barovia around a certain time. So they came up with a complicated plan to waylay and ambush her on the ol Svalich road to make the eventual windmill encounter easier. Obviously I want to encourage this type of play because it shows the party using their brains instead of their muscle to confront challenges. So I took the original solo Morgantha encounter that was packaged with Strahd and tried to alter it. I unchecked (reset) her placement and then brought up my own generic forest battlemap and reset her there in preparation of the ambush. Then locked it and got ready for them. As they approached I went ahead and activated the encounter and sent it to the combat tracker, which also activated it on the new battlemap, I placed the players tokens and the ambush ensued.
Unfortunately when anyone tried to roll combat dice on the Morgantha token (on both the battlemap or the combat tracker) and error/log box would pop up and it would not resolve the action. WE could still do it manually however by making the same rolls in the chat box. And damage could still be applied normally by rolling THAT on the appropriate token.
Later they fought the final two hags at Bonegrinder which again I had altered by deleting Morgantha from the encounter before activating it....and then had the same thing happen (no map change this time....only a deletion of one npc from the encounter).
Sorry for the length of this I just didn't know how to explain what's happening without the detailed example. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Anyone have any advice or experienced this before?
Thanks in advance for the help.🙏✌