One of my D&D groups fought some zombies this morning. Fifth Edition zombies have a neat little mechanic that I’ve not seen before, in which they have a chance of not being destroyed despite being brought down to zero hit points. My players were fighting a handful of these guys, and the zombies were rolling really well (by which I mean I was rolling really well) on these saves, and several of them were absolutely refusing to go down. I started thinking that this might be frustrating my players, not knowing at all what was going on here as zombies stayed up, blow after blow. So I took a pause and explained to them the mechanic that was going on. Maybe that wasn’t the right choice.Read More »