NekoJoker
2011-01-06, 04:54 PM
Hello Playgrounders!
I have a question for all of you, I am pondering the use of poison for a few encounters to come, but I have come to a problem in which i have to decide wether to make the encounter almost deadly or almost cripling... yeah, not good choices... but, anyways
So I am running a campaig with high level characters [16th level] and well optimized builds, succeding on their saves is like a 75% chance on their part
now... my real problem is, what should be my target?
Constitution is out of the picture for me... it's way too deadly and it seems like i'm cheating on my players, so i should target some other stat, in that case i have Str and Dex. But there's the problem, most of my players have put priority on high dex builds while almost dmping str...
If I target their Str score a couple luckys shots on the dice may get them fully paralyzed and dead really son
on the other hand if I target Dex they might be so crippled that the encounter may prove too dangerous for them.
What is the fair-est option?
Target Dex or Str?
Note: I am aware that there are psychic venoms I can use, but that seems like a "screw you spellcaster" approach and i don't want to take that route.
I have a question for all of you, I am pondering the use of poison for a few encounters to come, but I have come to a problem in which i have to decide wether to make the encounter almost deadly or almost cripling... yeah, not good choices... but, anyways
So I am running a campaig with high level characters [16th level] and well optimized builds, succeding on their saves is like a 75% chance on their part
now... my real problem is, what should be my target?
Constitution is out of the picture for me... it's way too deadly and it seems like i'm cheating on my players, so i should target some other stat, in that case i have Str and Dex. But there's the problem, most of my players have put priority on high dex builds while almost dmping str...
If I target their Str score a couple luckys shots on the dice may get them fully paralyzed and dead really son
on the other hand if I target Dex they might be so crippled that the encounter may prove too dangerous for them.
What is the fair-est option?
Target Dex or Str?
Note: I am aware that there are psychic venoms I can use, but that seems like a "screw you spellcaster" approach and i don't want to take that route.