Hello and welcome to Crash’s Course, a short form podcast where I share my thoughts and advice on playing and running tabletop role playing games in roughly about 5 minutes. In this episode I’d like to elaborate more on combat encounters. From 10 rats to a gang of cyborgs to a giant, ancient dragon, fight mechanics are a near universal standard of TTRPGs. Over the years I’ve developed some strong opinions on them, so here’s three of them. 1. Monsters are people, too. It’s been said that every well written antagonist is the protagonist of their own story, which is … Continue reading "Crash’s Course Ep 07: Combat Encounters"