Three people got to play, three people got to watch.Ī Battle Royale can be a fun way to change things up for your group of D&D players - instead of an extended, complex campaign against an overwhelming evil your players get to experience a self-contained, violent battle to the death with those that they typically consider friends. Our Barbarian got stuck in a Hold Person spell against a 21 Spell Save DC and had to watch as other the team did 350+ damage to her over the next few rounds with the aid of ~20 summoned Minotaurs. Our newest player - with less than a month of play - only got to take one turn before getting Banished for the remainder of the session (high Spell Save DC + Portent). Three rounds in, the excitement was gone and everyone on our squad was either not able to play or straight up not having a good time. We had a variety of players - the Dungeon M aster (DM) had played since the 3.5e days, some of us had played for a couple years, and one brand-spanking-new player who had joined us for the last two sessions of our regular campaign. After two weeks of planning with the other members of my squad I was ready for a memorable night of shenanigans playing Dungeons & Dragons in the form of a 3v3 Battle Royale. I finished my costume and war paint, then logged into Zoom ready to BE Boblin the Goblin - my 10th level Arcane Archer Fighter.

Critical role battle royale winner