Mike Shea

Somebody asked like, did you run this in Theater of the Mind or did you have 200 Pinto beans out on your play mat?

I ran this Theater of the Mind.

So I described it with my words and we used our brains and our imaginations that the characters were on a great big hill.

There was an archway in the center of the hill.

The hill was all made out of dead bodies and decomposed bodies that had been there for thousands of years.

And they first saw one ghoul

And they killed that ghoul.

And then two more ghouls came up and they started killing those ghouls.

And then they heard the onslaught and they saw these waves of hundreds of ghouls coming towards them.

And they're like, uh-oh.

And that's when they were like, okay.

And they got into position and they got their spells ready.

And they hammered them with spells and destroyed them.

So the damage carrying over really helped.

And instead of tracking hit points, I tracked the number of ghouls.

So I knew there were 200 ghouls.

I kept a little tally of 200 ghouls.

And every time a ghoul died, I would reduce that, basically keeping track of the number of dead ghouls until it hit 200 and then the ghouls are dead.

So it was sort of like tracking the ghouls.

lives rather than tracking hit points, right?