Yeah, ok, that’s not cool. Maybe everyone at your tabke signed up for that amount of bleed, but the default expectation is that behavior like that is not allowed out of character.

She appears to be a dwarf, but yeah

Creepy. Where can I find this system?

Turns out, it’s both!

Ooh, interesting. I’ll definitely keep that idea in my back pocket!

Well in the session i’m prepping this week, there’s a giant carnivorous bramble plant that’s pretty hard to spot until you’re already knee-deep in it. It’s completely inert until you scratch yourself on its thorns. Once it’s tasted your blood, though, it will grab you and drag you off to its heart, where it slowly drains you dry.

It makes traveling though the forest a very deadly proposition for anyone who doesn’t know how to spot them.

True! The main thing is that surprises are only fun if they don’t screw you over too bad. But once you’re warned? Then you can play hardball 😈

All sorts! What system and setting are you running?

This is why I don’t throw mimics at my players.

I do homebrew stuff, so all the surprise-bad-time monsters are surprises for everyone

LLMs? I don’t want that in my games, thanks.

Inkeeper: My daughters?! How dare you! Get out of my inn!!!

adventurers leave

Inkeeper: Good work, girls. Did you get his coinpurse?

Change or fudge enough rules and you’re basically playing a different game.

No time constraints? Now the GM has less levers to pull on to make choices feel meaningful.

Not tracking rations? Then there’s nothing stopping the players from travelling back to town to rest after every encounter.

Lots of game rules feel “less fun” in the moment but the alternative is constantly playing rocket tag because now fights don’t feel consequential unless player death is on the line - and that’s an easy line to accidentally cross. And then you end up fudging rolls to balance encounters.

But you wouldn’t need to make individual encounters so hard in the first place if pc death isn’t the only negative consequence on the table.

Sounds like what you need is a bestiary to build encounters from.

Archives of Nethys is a great place to go for that.

Honestly player characters in PF2 aren’t that fragile, (at low levels) you can just throw something vaguely level appropriate at them and all will be fine. They can always run away if things get spicy.

Seems like an interesting system. If I didn’t have quite the backlog already i’d pick it up

Most osr stuff is waaay more rules light than 5e.

Unfortunately I don’t have a recommendation :(

I’m homebrewing one but it’s not finished yet.

Ah! ok, that makes sense.

A similar thing probably also applies to other areas of life - like how does this person drive?

I thought about all the gms I know and what I know about their sexual tastes

huh. I’m a gm but I’m an extremely subby rope bunny.

Bud is definitely not lawful though. Peak CG energy.

In 5e, yes. You would eventually become good at everything since DCs aren’t all that high. There are things you could do to combat that, but at that point you’d be homebrewing your own rpg system :P