Felix Tips: SPICE UP YOUR D&D COMBAT

EYYYY Felix made another video! So if you want some spicy tips on how to run combat in D&D to make it more interesting, Felix got you.
Thank you for all your support on the last video, these have been really fun to make!

Huge shoutout to our friend VitaminDitter for helping us animate this video
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[jeandiethelm]

Dingo got mad last time, so he said bye and not yep. THE CONTINUITY I

[emeraldmoon]

"a tornado full of bees!" **New fear unlocked**

[denverarnold]

Felix and Dingo have the EXACT same humor. And I love it.

[Zerowolfkiller]

Felix's dedication to murdering his PC's is an inspiration to me.

[Azakamak]

The last time our DM decided to spice up an encounter a giant spider became a sorcerer mid battle that had access to fireball and darkness.

We were level 2.

We only made it out alive due to his own intervention of letting me cast a healing spell before I went down.
It should also be noted that our DM has rolled more Nat 20s then the rest of the players combined and has decided to not insta-kill us multiple times in a row.

[kennyholmes]

In regards to number three: My own DM just threw a Young Red Dragon *that had lair actions* at us... and we're only level 5, with a group size of five characters. We barely managed to get out of the sticky situation because we got an Ice Dragonborn Veteran back on his feet. No, the dragon wasn't killed by us.

[Gamewizardth]

I recently through a goblin that summoned other goblins at the party. it ended up where the wave of goblins was more like a liquid and each goblin only had one HP and one AC. after 8 rounds the party finally was able to find the caster and slay it. that was one of the party's favorite encounters

[ROYaaaal]

One thing I like to do to spice up death saves and give some more impact on said dying characters is to make them bring up memories. Every time someone fails a death save, I ask the player to describe what memory flashes before their characters eyes. On a success, instead give me a reason the character is pushing to live.

[zan]

I rarely have combat that does not have some backstory, like goblins patrolling a cave the rest of their tribe is in. But I also rarely have obstacles because why would a sentient being camp out in a place that's falling apart or has a lot of clutter? They'd clear that stuff out to be more efficient from my point of view, or avoid where they laid traps so they don't accidentally trigger them

[ravenclawfairy]

I have a really hard time with combat, so thank you so much for this ❤️

[shoelace]

As the person who might’ve turned our group into “D&D rules district court” I make it a rule of thumb to actively avoid the monster manual so I don’t instinctively remember every AC I graze with my sight

[mechavarice]

The bit about the environment had me thinking of an encounter that my players did some… interesting things with.

We had a new player who was a bard, and three more experienced players. A wizard, a cleric, and a warlock. They go through an NPC’s mansion to rescue the bard after they got captured. After they had to leave through the kitchen. Outside is a Bugbear guard bathing in a tub. They want to take a stealthy approach so bard throws a banana from the kitchen as a distraction.

Nat 1.

Bugbear gets hit with a banana out of nowhere and is confused enough that players get another action to act before he calls out. Cleric decides he’ll take him out.

Nat 1.

Cleric trips and falls on his face. So Warlock casts sleep to fix everything and the bugbear falls asleep face first in the bathtub doomed to drown to death. (Except the cleric flipped him over.)

I was in tears.

[aaronw]

combining monsters is really fun and made almost a whole campaign about it. the first mission was stopping a crazy druid that was combining plants and animals like a wolf with bark skin and a bear mixed with shambling mound. Later in a different mission they were fighting a cult of kyuss and so one of the boss monsters was a baheir that was reanimated and its breath weapon replaced with a cone version of the spawn of kyuss worm attack. my favorite tho was when a kobold was infected by the influence of hell and started turning into a bone devil.

[AlexandNieSafeplace]

So I was watching the video and as soon as Felix said "hot and tasty" I got an add of Arby's or Burger King of getting a sandwich that was "hot and tasty" I thought that was done on purpose for a second. Rewinded it and found it wasn't I find that was a amazing timing for that happening!

Also your guys videos are great! Keep up the great work!! :D

[kittybitty]

I was in a DnD time travel campaign and while my future elf character and her crew of fellow past explorers was exploring this dungeon. (trying to leave a message for the future it's all wibbly wobbly timey wimey).
In the future time: it was dilapidated and frankly a hazard to explore but did have some importance to the plot.
In the past time: this dungeon was a recently formed laboratory that was littered with scientists bodies....studying a Beholder.
My character managed to crush it by collapsing the tunnel above the beholder was chasing us through with exploding arrows.
From the years of experiments it was already weakened, and it was last on initiative list by the time it passed the stealth checks. But the table was freaking out the entire time it was alive.

Best use of the environment both by my Game Master (plot) and I (surviving) played in a long time.

[DCreed]

Most effort I've ever put into a boss fight was an interdimensional time golem guardian, a creature made from strange white material (like untextured polygons). The whole dungeon was made of this material, and whenever a player touched it, it would flash into a different material/texture.
This was true for the golem itself. It was invulnerable unless a player was actively touching it, at which point whatever limb they were touching would change to be one of several materials I would roll for. Each material had strengths and weaknesses the players could exploit (or hurt themselves with).
The goblin monk grabbled a leg, the leg turned into a block of water, and the bronze dragonborn decided it was a great time to remember they could breath lighting. Almost killed the monk, who was SO hurt about it. Other than that they sent a few players to grapple and cheesed it.

[tatersalad]

Stat block switching is also how I countered my cheaters when they'd ask me what specific monster we were fighting before "going to the bathroom" and coming back knowing how much HP the monster has, as well as resistances

[bonk]

The player doing the Chopper cry has had me laughing on my ass for like 4 minutes

[Finzombie]

I HIGHLY recommend The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, a terrific dnd tactics book.

[jgr]

I didn't know I needed Felix's series on DMing