Our little homebrew rule to reel in explotions

[Great_Moustache]

I can understand killing the boss fast might seem like a loss of dramatic tension. I would suggest, instead, using the Tenacity House rule. Taking away the awesome story and narrative that can come from a huge explosion takes away from what OL is about. Making a boss tougher, however, isn’t too difficult. With the current rules you can give a boss Die Hard, Divine Agent, Resistance/Immunity to damage types.

Here is the House Rule that Brain even made for people who were concerned about quick boss deaths like yourself. This isn’t core, but an easy addition:

Boss Tenacity House Rule

Sometimes, you throw your player’s up against a Boss NPC that is so fearsome, the storyline would be ruined if they could kill it in a single lucky attack roll. For those situations, you can try Boss Tenacity Boss Tenacity Bosses have a tenacity score equal to their Boss Edge score. A boss with tenacity remains at 1 hp, regardless of how much damage they suffer until their Tenacity is reduced to 0. Each attack that deals 1 or more damage reduces the boss’s tenacity by 1.