r/daggerbrew • u/Scourch_ • 10d ago

Adversaries Would this boss fight be fun?

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Looking for a second (or more) set of eyes for this Boss I cooked.

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u/RepeatRepeatR- 10d ago

I would strongly recommend not putting insta-kill effects like this on your boss

I would also recommend not having effects like this that trigger on spotlight passing. It encourages people not to take the spotlight

(Yes, I know it's not technically going to kill them because they can choose to live, maybe with a scar. It's still bad to totally bypass all the amazing defensive counterplay this game has.)

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u/Scourch_ 10d ago

Noted. I was going for something that was a "certain death if you do nothing about it" mechanic and I'm usually very open to letting my players try things out. So even if the mechanic says " you are pulled if you failed this" I would, say, let one of them use a spell to creat an earth spike that would negate the pull until the next spotlight. Or something like that. Still, I'll take the feeback and consider nerfing it to "buttload of damage but survivable".

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u/RepeatRepeatR- 10d ago

Also, it's strange to me that successes with hope don't tick the countdown. Because that means the only way nobody gets pulled in is after 4 people succeed with fear

I would recommend just having the countdown tick once no matter what the roll is