illahad
November 18th, 2023, 16:21
Hello everyone!
I made an extension to solve my problem, and I think it may be useful for other Game Masters as well. The problem is that while I like to use complicated monsters, for example those from MCDMs “Flee, Mortals!” or The Tome of Beasts or Monsters Menagerie, I constantly forget about all the reactions they have. So many times my players had a much easier time that it could be only because I forgot that the monster explodes on death, or can intervene when its ally is attacked, or parry an incoming attack etc.
So the extension now takes care of this for me. Then an NPC is added to the combat tracker, it parses the text of its traits and reactions and keeps an index of them. And when the proper trigger happens, it makes sure that monster is not incapacitated and that it can see the target if the reaction requires vision, if you use a grid it will check that the distance is right and so on. And if everything is fine - a message appears in the chat, with the link to the reaction text. Oh, my players are going to suffer now, mwahahahaha! Just kidding, I love my players :)
The extension also does a little automation for "Parry"-like reactions, it will immediately tell you whether the AC bonus will be enough to block the triggering attack or not.
You can get the extension for free in the Fantasy Grounds Forge (https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/1463/view) or on GitHub (https://github.com/IvanKostruba/Prompt-Reaction)
I made an extension to solve my problem, and I think it may be useful for other Game Masters as well. The problem is that while I like to use complicated monsters, for example those from MCDMs “Flee, Mortals!” or The Tome of Beasts or Monsters Menagerie, I constantly forget about all the reactions they have. So many times my players had a much easier time that it could be only because I forgot that the monster explodes on death, or can intervene when its ally is attacked, or parry an incoming attack etc.
So the extension now takes care of this for me. Then an NPC is added to the combat tracker, it parses the text of its traits and reactions and keeps an index of them. And when the proper trigger happens, it makes sure that monster is not incapacitated and that it can see the target if the reaction requires vision, if you use a grid it will check that the distance is right and so on. And if everything is fine - a message appears in the chat, with the link to the reaction text. Oh, my players are going to suffer now, mwahahahaha! Just kidding, I love my players :)
The extension also does a little automation for "Parry"-like reactions, it will immediately tell you whether the AC bonus will be enough to block the triggering attack or not.
You can get the extension for free in the Fantasy Grounds Forge (https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/1463/view) or on GitHub (https://github.com/IvanKostruba/Prompt-Reaction)