Author Topic: Intrigue and Combat in one game?  (Read 529 times)

Offline Prak

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Intrigue and Combat in one game?
« on: October 31, 2022, 05:04:30 AM »
So, my friend has been running a 5e game, we took a break, and she's planning on starting a new one soon. We're looking at doing a one shot this week to kinda of get everyone back into the rp swing, and it's sort called the elephant in the room to speak up-

The issue is that most people in the group are more into intrigue and interpersonal drama, while I'm more about dungeoncrawling and combat--if I were any good at interpersonal drama or achieving objectives through talking, I'd have a better life right now.

Is there a system, or maybe a hack or something, that handles this sort of split in player tastes?

Offline Nanshork

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Re: Intrigue and Combat in one game?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2022, 12:50:39 PM »
In this kind of situation people generally play an adventure that contains both so everyone can be happy (I don't know of any 5e third party/homebrew stuff that would handle this).  If you're like me you could also look into playing something that isn't D&D but I don't know if playing a system that handles intrigue as another sort of combat would make the intrigue focused people happy.