Would it be bad taste for me to create encounters that target the party's weaknesses?

Sadly, yes. How many times have I told you Tim, children are not for dating or sexual pleasures.

Well, not in this inferior western "culture" anyway.

Then please Tim, move to Syria and join ISIS. They'll give you what you want.

Whether or not it makes sense from an internal logic point of view, expect massive player butthurt.

>Way back.
>Playing DnD 3.5
>Party does a lot of work for this one church, before turning against them.
>Church had given the fighter a set of armor that gave a pretty hefty DR, only vulnerable to adamantine weapons.
>But, become renegades, and on a certain job, get ambushed by forces of said church.
>A small number of them have adamantine weapons
>They ALL invariably target the fighter.
>You never heard such whining.

Did they willingly or purposely take those weaknesses?
Is it possible for them to overcome the challenge anyways?
Is it a thing that would make at least a small amount of sense to happen in setting?

If yes to all three, go for it.

Are the weaknesses ones that people could realistically have learned about and prepared to take advantage of? This is important.

Why, it's a hellhole war and destruction caused by western imperialism. We must save those poor brown people and bring them here to enrich us with their wisdom.

I was hoping you would die in the hellhole, Tim. Hope you have a good day, the FBI have been notified. Hope to see you tomorrow on our newest episode.

There's no harm in tinkering with an encounter to challenge the party's weak areas. Just don't be a hoser and make an entire encounter designed to take a yard (all-psychic damage to fuck up barbarians etc.).

Mooooods ! The pedo squad forgot to take its pills, again.

Obviously it depends. I think its fun to give the party fights where they can succeed easily, and fights where its a challenge. Most of my PC's are well built, so I usually plan my encounter's around targeting one or two party member's weaknesses. Overall, I think what matters is that you and your players are having fun with the game. I know mine enjoy a challenge, but they still want to feel like the heroes, so just do what they enjoy :)

Depends on how frequently it happens. Every now and then, with a story reason (people who know of and have studied the group, etc)? Sure, that's fine. This third group of random bandits in a row knows exactly how to take down the party? You deserve to be cunt-punted.

I missed you so much, my bear friend.

mods are pedos

>removing racism, trolls and loli from Veeky Forums

no one posts ever again

More than once is bad taste.

Just remove the loli-fags. If you can't deal with the niggers and trolling, then you shouldn't be on Veeky Forums.

what makes you incapable of dealing with lolifags?

Did everyone in the party Min-Max like fucktards?

if so, then PUNISH THE FUCK OUT OF THAT SHIT.

If not, then meh, do whatever.

But user how would anyone have any fun?

he wants sanitized 4chans so he can brag to his friends about being lejun

only if you apply meta knowledge about the party's weaknesses

having enemies that learn from what they have been shown can be a way to regulate the abuse of min maxing builts.

I don't like pedophiles. It's as simple as that. I understand this is Veeky Forums and they'll never leave, but that doesn't mean I can't bitch about the lolifags.

It would be worse if you didn't create encounters that featured MANLY MUSTACHES

If they are just fapping to drawings what reason you could possibly have to be bothered by them?, you need to lurk more

"no loli outside of /b/" refers to pornographic loli, you fucking redditor. You need to go back.

Depends:
Do you have 4 players with 1 specific weakness they all have in common? If so: yes, totally fair. Like having one Super Effective pokemon against the type of the gym leader, it's fair.

Do they have four separate, distinct weaknesses, which are not common or shared between players? For instance, is one player weak to ice magic, another to projectile weaponry, another to being grappled? Then it is poor taste to send out an enemy ice wizard who shoots ice-hamds that grapple foes.

I think it's fine to fuck with your player's weaknesses. Just so long as you don't have the mindset of 'they're fairly tough, they can take a CR+1 encounter which is tailor made to hard-counter them". You'll just get a TPK which feels especially cheap, while a CR-3 encounter that makes them sweat bullets might bring on a little humility.

>what reason you could possibly have to be bothered by them?

their pedophilic nature

That they're jacking off to drawings of little girls and probably boys as well. I find it disturbing. Its like someone telling me that they fuck animals.

It's only bad taste if you force them into a literal corner with no possible out besides having to high roll their weakest stats. The party should be able to improvise their way out of the situation using each other's strengths and the environment.

>That they're jacking off to drawings of little girls and probably boys as well.

NO, NO, no, that's nonsense. We only jack off ot one or the other, not both.

>I find it disturbing.
This isn't your safe space. Get the fuck out. Sage for bait and switch.

/d/ exists, so maybe 50/50 as well.

No, but you should do it sparingly.

If it is within reason. If the villain has been observing your party for a while, then of course they will send out whatever can fight your party most effectively. It keeps your group on their feet.

Speak for yourself, you philistine.
Loli x shota is the purest love of all.

It works fine if say, the evil baron who the party has been fucking with has had spies gather info on the party and talked to people who fought them previously and so he hired mercenaries who he thinks would be effective in defeating them the same way a party of PCs might be hired to fight monsters or gives his men suitable gear. If the party wizard openly uses fire spells all the time and introduces himself as Falgor the Flammable of course the guys sent after them will grab fireproof cloaks or potions of resist flame, and it doesn't take tactical genius for the Guard Captain to tell his men to break out the bows to fight the huge guy with the axe the size of a wagon wheel rather than close to melee. This is fine, can lead to some fun encounters and makes sense.

What is not okay is using DM knowledge of characters against them. If one of the party is secretly a lycanthrope then every asshole bandit shouldn't just happen to have silver daggers or if the party cleric has a secret fear of spiders not every step outside town should feel like they've wandered into Loth's summer home. Fighter who specilized in doing huge crits? Boy sure seems strange everything that isn't undead, oozes, and golems all have Armour of fortification on.
Even these can work as one offs but if the party feels like every random orc is custom crafted to fuck these four adventuring assholes they'll feel like they're being screwed.

Implementation is a question in this.

If you put an encounter for them to face that strikes at a weakness they have chosen as an intentional flaw, it has to come up at some point.

If it's a coincidental weakness, then having it come up makes some sense, though unless they're facing enemies knowledgeable about the party it shouldn't come up commonly.

If it's a weakness or deficiency in the party's total composition, it has to be handled carefully; I once accidentally stonewalled a party by presenting an impediment with the thought that their tech specialist would handle the front door and get them in so they could do their thing, but somehow he got left behind and they wound up locked outside with no way in. Left a lotta folks a bit frustrated that the big stellar megacorp's security measures actually worked for once.

Target a players weakness with a foes vulnerable to another party member's strengh
Thats a good way to make cooperation/bonding in your party
If just poking the party wide weakness, try not to do it often and more importantly always have a reason to do so in the plot

Depends. If every orc starts wearing pants of fire resistance, or whatever the counter is, that is in bad taste.
If an established, intelligent enemy is out to get the players, then it stands to reason that he will have his goons equipped to handle them.

Basically, come up with a way to excuse it.

>uncalled for catchphrases
>macro image rplies
>off-topic replies
>flames
>trolls
>racism

Rules that aren't enforced, anyone?

Do what would make sense for the villain: is he the kind of guy to exploit the weakness of the heroes, if he knows what it is? Then Do_it.mp4

>Would it be bad taste for me to create encounters that target the party's weaknesses?
Nah, there was a GM in a thread just this last week who noticed the entire party had taken colorblindness as a flaw. He set them up in a scenario where they needed to disarm a bomb by cutting the red wire, as you can probably guess it didn't go well for that party. Consensus in that thread was that it was an ok thing to do, since it wasn't a made up "rocks fall" no-win situation.

In a more general sense targeting weaknesses can make for a more interesting encounter since it will force your players to think and act differently. Just don't over do it, or make it a situation where they have no hope of success. In the bomb scenario, for example, the party still could have gotten lucky and cut the right wire, or have had another way to deal with/disarm the bomb.

I/m more of a fan of encounters that target one of the party meber's weakness in a way he must rely on the rest of the party to save him. It builds party loyalty.
Or breaks it.

Judging by your picture, aren't you going for the player's weaknesses rather than the characters? If so, that is splendid and you should do it no more often than once a session.

You mean you don't?

loli and shota get scrubbed from everywhere except /aco/ and /trash/

That info would be needless for you to know.

>he says in a thread with Needless in the OP

>tfw they both get turned into girls at the end

Given that how much more manly Yamada got after he started crossdressing I wonder what getting turned into a girl will do to her.

Going by every other chick in the series make him as hardcore as the lady that wears clothes made of iron thread.

Challenges that target teamplay weaknesses are the best

But if you enforce rules against uncalled for catchphrases, off topic replies, flames, trolls, racism and /pol/ outside of /pol/ then they'll screech and ree about evil liberal Marxist sjw discrimination and outsiders trying to change muh secret club regardless of the actual board culture amoung non-newfags.

Reported for being a pedo ;^)

You've clearly never been to /d/, A.K.A "We will put a three-foot, grotesquely veined penis that's as wide as a person's torso on literally anything and then whack off to it." There are literally threads for wanking to girls who've been replaced with a dick from the neck up.

What if I told you I enjoy all three, preferably with a side order of cum inflation and pregnancy?

I'd say you're gross and to keep your gross fetishes away from me.

Wow. Japan and it's fucking weird CP fixation is just......

>Would it be bad taste for me to create encounters that target the party's weaknesses?

...pedophilia?

>Not combining all of the above with literal dick-heads
Get on my level, scrub.

You target the party's weaknesses with little girls/boys that are optimized to exploit them.

Given OP is Needless, that is exactly what is happening here. Yamada is one of those characters with a glaring flaw (being a hardcore pedo) that isn't really a flaw to the target audience.

We all know it is just, as opposed to the injustice people have to experience for their likes in other countries.

When you're done, OP, tell us how it went. I want to see the players faces while struggling.

I really need to become a japanese citizen.

No. Just remember there is a time and place for everything.
Rember that your objective is not to kill your players. Let their deaths be by their own folly.

still, lolicons and shotacons rarely mix. And you can't post loli shit there either, now shota is a different story, fufufu

Well the most important one is enforced. That's what matters.

If their weakness is underage girls wearing almost nothing, then yes.

Are you sure they're girls?

They aren't wearing enough to hide a dick.

The right one is.

In that instance I'd personally be expecting full targeting vs the entire party.

>Fire Resistance on the dude for the Pyro
>Arrow Resistance for the Ranger
>etc.

If you betray a group and they know you. Of your strengths and weaknesses AND would have the capital / influence to get said gear.

But not on the everyday grunts. But an elite assassin kill-team? Expect it.

>Honestly I'd kinda expect it for a generic primary antagonist too.

No, it wouldn't, but it'd probably be considered rather unsporting to do it excessively. It does depend on the group of players you've got to some extent - some players are going to enjoy being challenged by that sort of thing regularly, others are going to find it more of a slog.

bad manga desu

I'd say I don't give a fuck, and really, who cares?