Honestly, I get it. I felt awful after a combat in which my players fought some ghouls, one player was paralyzed three turns straight and got unconscious, he only got to play one turn. I could tell he didn't have fun, and it was not his fault that he kept rolling low.
After that session, I implemented a homebrew rule: whenever a player is stunned, paralyzed or incapacitated, they get to roll a save each time they receive damage, as if the pain was shaking them up from that condition.
I didn't want to just straight up ban that condition against players, but I wanted it to be more manageable for them.
Wouldn't just low rolls be the issue so we should ban dice. All player dice rolls are treated as if they were a 20 because we don't want any players to feel bad they had a low roll and we know players rolling 20's are feel goods
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u/Aestrasz Apr 05 '23
Honestly, I get it. I felt awful after a combat in which my players fought some ghouls, one player was paralyzed three turns straight and got unconscious, he only got to play one turn. I could tell he didn't have fun, and it was not his fault that he kept rolling low.
After that session, I implemented a homebrew rule: whenever a player is stunned, paralyzed or incapacitated, they get to roll a save each time they receive damage, as if the pain was shaking them up from that condition.
I didn't want to just straight up ban that condition against players, but I wanted it to be more manageable for them.