A while back, we had a session between major adventures where I wanted to test out a couple of goofy ideas I had, one of which was an alternate take on Displacer Beasts. My idea was to give them reverse AC, under the notion that the better you are at hitting where they seem to be, the worse you miss where they actually are. So any attack roll that matched or exceeded the Displacer Beast's AC was a miss, while any roll under it was a hit. (1s were criticals.) I did raise the displacer beast's AC as given by the MM from 13 to 17, so as to give a decent space underneath for PC with +8s or +10s to their attack rolls to be able to hit it.
Once the players clued in to what was going on ("Wait, how did that hit? He rolled a 7! You told me I missed on a 19!" "Yeah. Both of those things happened.") they started to have a good time coming up with ideas to make their rolls worse. The fighter closed his eyes to give himself disadvantage on attack rolls while blinded, the bard used Cutting Words on his own allies, the ranger rummaged around in the junk bag to find a strength-based weapon. It was good times.
A while back, we had a session between major adventures where I wanted to test out a couple of goofy ideas I had, one of which was an alternate take on Displacer Beasts. My idea was to give them reverse AC, under the notion that the better you are at hitting where they seem to be, the worse you miss where they actually are. So any attack roll that matched or exceeded the Displacer Beast's AC was a miss, while any roll under it was a hit. (1s were criticals.) I did raise the displacer beast's AC as given by the MM from 13 to 17, so as to give a decent space underneath for PC with +8s or +10s to their attack rolls to be able to hit it.
Once the players clued in to what was going on ("Wait, how did that hit? He rolled a 7! You told me I missed on a 19!" "Yeah. Both of those things happened.") they started to have a good time coming up with ideas to make their rolls worse. The fighter closed his eyes to give himself disadvantage on attack rolls while blinded, the bard used Cutting Words on his own allies, the ranger rummaged around in the junk bag to find a strength-based weapon. It was good times.
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