Nice video, I'll drop some timestamps here Step 1 Have a good boss 0:18 Step 2 Determine the stakes 0:41 Step 3 Design the environment 1:15 Step 4 Design the phases 3:25 Step 5 Engagement and Inclusivity 5:38 Step 6 Make the boss feel real 6:13 Step 7 The aftermath 6:55

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

hey I appreciate that!

Great video, but you skipped all the mechanics. I usually build a fight to avoid a surround and pound which is boring I think for all. I try to get my players to think creatively. Look at the PC abilities and gear know what they do, and start building from there.

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm more about the "story" than the mechanics. I agree though! Looking at their weaknesses and strengths is a GREAT way to build a battle. I'll have to do a followup video on that

@1:46 Tobias is the happiest little displacer beast. Live your best life, Tobias!

Love your videos man

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

thanks for the love! :D

Great advice, loved the video!

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

thanks for the love!

Great video! 😊

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

thanks for the love!

Great videos keep em coming! Oh and tobias at 1.45 looks like he stared in the dnd movie 😉

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the love! :D

Good stuff. Well thought out.

@TheFantasyForge

Ай бұрын

appreciate the love! :D

Thank you this really will help me create my Lord Soth encounter truly epic

Nice

Good points and tips

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Always appreciate the love you leave

for a giant or gargantuan boss, try to make it so that: A: try to implement unique mechanics like climbing the foe. get creative, do something like SOTC did and allow an opponent to be climbed on. B: make it immune to legendary or OP spells like banish. it'll be boring if someone can just kill it instantly that way. C give it unique weaknesses/weakpoints, like a fire golem is weakened or can't use an attack after getting damaged by a frost or water based attack. D: use certain dice depending on the size

@TheFantasyForge

Ай бұрын

climbing a colossus is all I've ever wanted in a boss fight haha

1:46 baby displacer in the same scene with a big displacer

1:45 I feel kinda sorry for Tobias, his cousin at the top of that shaft is much meaner. I honestly really like the boss fight concept. I've planned out several before, but I've never really truly had a "Boss Fight" it's been hard to actually reach a point in the story where that would happen. Would love to change that someday, but that may take a while... I notice you have a lot of clips from *Arrival*, which just so happens to be one of my favorite movies. We watched it in my high school Anthropology class when we were studying linguistics. Really mind-bending, but hands down a really cool movie with a really neat story. Maybe you could build on the whole trying to understand our visitors sort of thing, I feel like that might make for a really cool campaign idea.

@analyticsystem4094

3 ай бұрын

My advice for setting up a boss fight is to give the party conflict that involves the boss. I’ve had bosses kidnap party members, kill family members of the party, and kidnap npcs who are friends with the party. If you give the party a reason to want to fight, then they will want to face that boss. I start with a personal reason then add smaller things to make my party dislike planned bosses. They really enjoy this format so your players may enjoy it as well

@1:46 Tobias chilling with the party before an encounter

1:45 Tobias was adorable.

I’ve been putting in a lot of work for my next boss fight, I want to give the players their most challenging fight yet. They are facing off against a pirate King blessed by a god who also has the power to fuse his body with his castle. The fight will start small scale in his throne room while roleplaying of course. The second phase starts with the King fusing his body with his castle, making the fight large scale and the collateral damage will hurt the townspeople. I have it setup for a bunch of npcs to help the townspeople while the party takes down the king for good

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

this sounds epic and horrifying

Whoa. Uh, gotta say, you got my name darn near perfect. My son: "Pretty impressive." Elevator-displacer-kitten at 1:45!

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

LOL yessss 😎 I pride myself on getting people's names right.

@josephvahabzadeh1289

4 ай бұрын

@@TheFantasyForgeDefinitely! I hear ya! Hell, I'm kind of embarrassed when I can't get a name right, because, given my name, I have no excuse! 😆😆 Now, my parents, being parents, and being the ones who emigrated to the US from Iran, had they heard this, might point out "Well, yes, very well done. The way English speakers say it." Me: 🙄 For Farsi speakers (of which I don't even know enough to ask where the restroom is), or people whose native languages are in and around the Middle East, there's a subtle shift in the vowels, and, slightly different emphasis on syllables - almost like all (or none) of the syllables are emphasized, rather than just the second syllable. It's kind of hard to verbally describe it, and I know how to do it because of hearing family and friends of family saying it (and people I've worked with from India, Pakistan, as well as Arabic speaking countries) by default say it correctly. I think the A in the second and third syllables shifts a little bit to being like a short-o sound. I didn't even realize that the "Anglicized" pronunciation was wrong until, well probably about my college years. And, why am I saying all this? This is way more info than anyone EVER needed!

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

That was fascinating to read! I have a love for history (I think everyone can tell from my content) and I especially love languages. My parents are immigrants as well so I totally understand that haha. @@josephvahabzadeh1289

@josephvahabzadeh1289

3 ай бұрын

@@TheFantasyForge - super cool. Mind if I ask where your parents came from? I actually had to make myself step away from this conversation because I almost began a novella about how I did a 180 on languages. But, the super-TL;DR version is that, while I enjoyed history, I never got into it a huge amount. As to languages, in my youth, I was afraid of them, as I found the idea of learning another language overwhelming/intimidating. It's only been later in life, and, likely, thanks in part to RPGs, that I started becoming fascinated by accents, which led me to thinking more on how the originating language's rules affects how one's accent sounds when they speak English, etc. Then learning how to do the accents passably enough to sound convincing in a game. And now, I also pay a little too much attention to that kind of thing in movies and TV shows as well, up to just the other night watching a show and thinking "This guy's British. He is doing a pretty good American accent, but these tiny slips come out. I'm pretty sure he's a British actor." Yes, that's the *short* version.

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

@@josephvahabzadeh1289 LOL yeah my parents are from Central America (Costa Rica) but I was born in California which gives me this weird mix of cultures as a first gen. I totally hear you on that, languages and how the develop is fascinating to me.

1:45 Tobias would never pull the players out of the story!

1:45 hey, isn't displacer beasts are enemies in this scene?

@TheFantasyForge

4 ай бұрын

he's undercover 😎

1:46 I'd be worried about him, but somehow I think maybe he had something to do with this.

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

...whaaat...Tobias???...nooooo..........😏

Dead cells Good video tho

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

still have no idea who that is lmao

@smart456

3 ай бұрын

Oh I thought that your avatar is from the game dead cells, one of the skins there is suspiciously similar

@smart456

3 ай бұрын

Really good video btw

@TheFantasyForge

3 ай бұрын

@@smart456 Lol I've googled them after people started mentioning it. I didn't realize there were different skins! Any way to look it up? I'm curious lmao

@smart456

3 ай бұрын

I'll try Edit: at the dead cells wiki, there is a list of head skins and the one I'm talking about is called black hole And it might not look similar at first glance, but the animation is really similar Edit edit: I think it's one of the variations of that black hole skin

God i hate narrative gamers, go back to the theater classes

@TheFantasyForge

Ай бұрын

Nobody is making you play with them lmao. Sorry the video isn't for you! Have fun at your own type of games though. Thanks for the engagement!