Running a Chase Scene in D&D - Simple, Easy-to-Use Rules 

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Ah yes, Locate Big Bad Evil Guy, the brilliant 8th level spell that most DMs have banned due to the fact that it can just skip the lategame story

Man, I wish more people were experiencing the true enjoyment of D&D

I would just tell the players the fireball blows up a nearby wagon temporarily slowing the rogue down

The last time I did a chase, I dug out the rules from pathfinder which turned out to be even more clunky then what is first described there. Your variant rules are awesome and I hope to remember next time a chase is called for.

This is actually a good way to do it, i will probably use this in one of my comming sessions! Great advice bro

Personally I like skill and challenge setups. Particularly for rooftop chases where you may be swinging around chimneys or mage handing rags into their face to make their next jump harder.

I'm running a one shot in a few weeks and there's a chase scene in it and I've been stressing for ages over it. I'm just starting out as a GM and finding the mechanics very overwhelming, but this was broken down in a way that made me feel comfortable and confident. Thank you!

Agreed! Colville mentioned this as well. I love it!

1:40 advice; 4:25 is abridged, the whole party challenge one roll per member. OR skill challenge, my idea is that spending a spell or ability like misty step, vines, or rogue dashing twice can give you advantage on the roll! Characters with three failures is out, three successes is caught up. SO make a short chase rule, or long chase scene

Thanks man. This is probably the best set of rules I've found for Chase scenes. I'm definitely going to use this

This is a pretty simple and sweet way to run it for 5e, for those wanting a little more meat I'd recommend checking out the Savage Worlds adventure edition chase rules. It's got a word or two you might need to look up but the basic idea is pretty simple and useful.

I was running a campaign that called for me to use the Chase deck, and at the end of running this scenario the players felt confused and annoyed so I definitely think this version could be something I'll try in the future! Thanks for the pointers! :)

Flinging fireballs and other projectiles can lead to bad things.

I LOVE using skill challenges on my players in 5e, 4e introduced a lot of interesting mechanics and I feel doesnt get enough credit for innovating. I steal a lot of 4e stuff for 5e

Ugh. My GMs would alway just run chases using combat rounds, with the end result being that no one and no thing could ever get away - unless of course they had higher move values. For typical humanoids it went something like this: They try to run and move away. Next, the pursuer moves right up next to them and attacks again. Then, they move away again. Next, the pursuer again moves up next to them and attacks again. Finally, the one fleeing realizes that this only ends one way and makes a last stand. Total lack of imagination.

Using this system in my game tonight! Very flowing easy to run system. Thank you for sharing!

You have covered a sensible way to run a chase scene. Great video.

Great video! keep them coming and ill keep watching!

If the mage would use a fireball during the chase, not only he would kill/injure the guy that he is trying to hit... but also all the civilians, so he would be closer sure... but only to death sentence.

Perfect timing for this video! I've been wanting to implement a chase in my game. Also, great use of the intro/skit characters.

I came up with a similar set of rules myself, but I didn't have a chance to implement them into my campaign yet. This video encourages me to try it out. Thanks

Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing them.

would definitely give this a try

I know this is an old video but gonna be trying out these rules in my session today for something a little different. Can't wait!

Love the voices, and this is really good advice, I intend to use these rules when I run Out of the Abyss and the drow catch up to the players while they're traveling.

Im definetly stealing this for my Next one shot. Great idea and video 👍

thanks for making this cool video man, i'll try some of this out

This is a much better approach than the default chase rules. Thanks!

Oh my god I've been waiting ages for this kind of house rule. Man, your channel is a gem!

I think it is very interesting how many 4th edition features seep into 5th edition, when spicing up combat (tactical challenge) or in this case doing a skill challenge (for narrative benefit)

I like what Dragon Heist did, which is have the DM roll for possible obstacles that can get in the player’s way during a chase, such as a moving fruit cart or a large fence. These obstacles can create interesting situations for players to use different skill checks and make it feel like a real chase scene.

Well with the end of the video I can say it's an easy explanation. With the Wizard shooting firebolt as he runs it can (if in a town) for something to break, giving something quickly climb up but then slide down this rubble, making him be a bit in the lead. Just the DM explaining and etc. I say go crazy with the explanations to make it fun

thanks, it's my first time DMing and I'm totally disoriented on how to run a chase, but this is an easy way, thanks

Oh this is great! How fun for something different to add into a game! Thanks!

That's a pretty interesting mechanic... I'll try it for sure! Also maybe the quarry could be more interactive and make it harder for the players to maintain the chase

I like this but I would want to work it both ways. If the wizard is trying to slow him down then the party advances, and if one character wants to surge ahead the move up individually. In the same way you can’t get the crowd to help very easily if they see explosions so you will have to keep that in mind. I suppose it lends to more situational thinking to your very good chase structure.

Great suggestion. Thanks

Sorry for being late, just wanted to say, that at my table the DM did pretty much the same thing with one exception - the running person was also rolling and those rolls determined the DC for the round. If they got a low number, they tripped and it was easier for us to close on them. If they got a high number, they knocked out some obstacles for us to get through. That way we really weren't sure what would happen next. But as for what happened after one of us got to the target, we basically entered the fight but instead of initiative, the order of our actions was determined by who failed less/more often and thus got there sooner or later

I love this. Thank you

I was thinking about writing some chase scenes for a campaign I will be running in the future, and this video arrived just in time. I took the notebook I use to jolt down notes on worldbuilding and rules I should be using and I never lifted the pencil from the notebook while I was listening to the video!

My group did a drive by shooting on castle Ravenloft at level 3. The fighters spent time gathering weapons and hiring the best driver they could find. We took Van Richten’s carriage up to castle Ravenloft and the fighters shot fire arrows (flaming arrows) into the wine cellar. A few minutes later Strahd sent a bunch of wolves and other creatures after our carriage. Combat ensued and we were using whatever we could to fight off the creatures while the carriage was moving down the road. A few enemies flanked the carriage but we defeated them. It was awesome!

I going try this out with my players and see how we feel about it as a group, thanks mate

I am running a sci-fi fantasy mixed campaign and we have an encounter coming up where a player and Nov are racing vehichles and the winner takes the losers vehichle. I had very little idea how I would make this work but this video has helped a lot

My party's cleric (A Tempus worshipping Tiefling) would like nothing more than to gut his enemy (A grazztian Cambion). But he would also be perfectly satisfied with dying in battle against this guy or his minions. The Cambion knows this, and refuses to give him the satisfaction. Therefore chase scenes are kind of inevitable, and something I have been dreading. Especially considering this is my first campaign. I wanted to thank you for making this video, you have saved me a great deal of head-aches, and the reliance on skill checks allows the cleric's supportive abilities to shine, in the pursuit of his hated enemy.

I was actually planning on using a chase scene in my first game that I will be DMing, I like this way, THANKS!

I ran a chase scene once and I really liked how I did it. It was similar to your method, but it involved the players having to get creative to catch the thief. For example, the thief decided to climb a building, one of the players did the same passing a DC, then the thief ran across a line bridging the two buildings together. the player fails the DC and falls down. FInally a second line to the city wall. The gate was closed so the players decided to climb the wall. Passed the DC and the thief tries to do the same but fails. The thief laying on the ground gets ambushed by the players and is unable to escape. I can imagine this as being a more cinematic and interactive approach to a skill check. Try it out sometime!

Pretty easy way to make sense of the Firebolt: give advantage on further checks made by people actually closing in on the target. The wizard would still be out after 3 failures like everybody else, but doesn't move any "closer" to the target. That way, they can still contribute, just that they probably won't catch the target themselves.

Thank you DmLair I have been trying to figure out how to run chase scenes as a DM!

I normally wouldn't comment on a video this old, but this just came up in our game yesterday. Our second level party was fleeing a hag with an army of ghouls and zombies. The DM ran it as a group skill challenge as Luke describes here and it worked brilliantly. What could easily either taken three sessions to play out or ended in a quick TPK turned into a fun 2 hours - yeah it was a long chase. We only lost our NPC guide right at the end.

With two rogues and a monk in the party this will make chase scenes way more interesting! Will definately deploy this!

To me this is kinda like a homebrewed skill challenge. And i like it!

This is brilliant. The only thing I wish it did is incorporate movement speed. So I'm thinking that movement speed can factor into the skill check's DC. As a DM, here's what I will attempt at my session tomorrow: Subtract the pursuer's movement speed from the quarry's speed, multiply that by .3, and add the result to 10. This is your DC. So, for example, a gnome (movement speed 25) is pursing a Hill Giant (movement speed 40). 40 - 25 = 15 15 x .3 = 4.5 10 + 4 (rounded down) = 14 DC = 14 If the gnome happened to be pursing a Rat (movement speed 20) the DC would be 9. 20 - 25 = -5 -5 X .3 = -1.5 10 + (-1)= 9 DC = 9 I realize that I am introducing another layer of complexity, but I want movement speed to count for something and I figure it might as well factor into the DC check. I'm not sure whether multiplying the difference in movement speeds by .3 is the right metric, but that can be fine tuned as we play. Thanks for an awesome approach to chases!

I think I'd just run a chase exactly like combat, only instead of keeping track of positions, we'd just have to keep track of each character's distance from the fleeing quarry. Plus maybe a complication at the start of each round after the first that causes you to start falling behind if you fail (The rogue runs straight into the crowds of the market street, how are you going to keep up with him?). That way it would reward both characters with fast movement and creative use of skills.

For that fireball, I'd have them actually roll a ranged attack against the BBEG with an increased AC (explaining briefly that it's going to play out like this so are they sure they want to risk the spell slot) - the fireball would either miss (so describe the destruction) or hit (causing the damage to the BBEG's hit points AND destruction) but either way, I'd have them do the Arcana check to gain/lose ground on them. If they loose an arrow, ranged attack against increased AC to hit/miss and sleight of hand to see if they can shoot and still gain ground. A failed tackle/grapple declaration would be followed a DEX save of 15+ to stay on their feet otherwise they fall out of the chase until someone catches up or they escape.

Here is an idea for chases... First establish how many rounds it would take the quarry to reach safe haven (hideout, cave, church, etc.) Let's say 8 rounds. So the PCs have 8 rounds to catch the quarry. As you say in the video, set a fixed DC like 12 for low tier players. So the base DC for each pursuer to catch the quarry is 8x12=96. This base DC is adjusted for speed for each pursuer. Each 5 foot of speed difference adjusts the DC. So if the quarry has speed 25, and the PC has speed 30, the base DC to catch the quarry is 96-5=91. Now if anything during the chase would slow the quarry down like a spell or ranged damage, each time the base DC is lowered by 5. Any natural 1 rolled would raise the base DC by 5. Any natural 20 rolled would lower the base DC by 5. Any PC chasing the quarry begins to roll each round, adding together the rolls to reach the adjusted DC within 8 rounds. To physically chase the quarry, PC rolls a a combination of endurance, athletics and acrobatics, maybe even animal handing if on a mount or Perception to not lose the quarry around corners or through bushes. This system works really well and the roleplay dialogue follows the success of the rolls.

Don’t know why you have such few views; your content is great!

Great Rules, Great

Terrible DM here, I have never seen the rules for chase scenes and never considered it really. I love your method of doing it. As we are about to do an urban campaign, this will be great introduction. When I implement it I will declare that we are now in a chase and here are the rules so when they do things like throw things or cast spells that they are checks, not so much damage/kill actions. Thank you! Also, unpopular opinion, I liked 4th addition and this sounds like it was inspired by it ;)

That’s much simpler than what the Dm guide says, thanks!

Thanks for the alternative idea for a chase! I think I will merge the concept with some of the random stuff proposed in the DMG to spice things up. My only question is: what if a player just attacks the quarry? like ranged weapon or spell... do you actually apply roll for damage etc, or use that as a skill check as well?

What I like to do is put down sticky notes in a pyramid, each sticky note has underneath it a specific trigger, I let the player tell me how they're handling it, a successful check lets them get closer, a failure lags them behind, the players try to get to the top of the pyramid within a set number (I usually do best 3 out of 5)

The best chase mechanic i had. i ruled like a secuence of scenes with oposite checks . (more like a cinematographic scene) the party was chasing an assesine, thru a city. the asesine had the advantaje so he was 2 "chase rounds" away at the start. the assesine made a check each turn, and that was the "DC" for al the others. the first scene was just a "run", so every one in the party make an atletic check against the "rogue check". the second one, the rogue was making havock in the city to hinder the chase. he made an acrobatic check and that was the dificulty, the third he tryed to stealth with bonus for each "chase round" he had. against perception or investigation. this time he ended with a check stealth +15 and then the party losed him... the same guy atempted that again but the wizard casted haste on a paladin. and the chase ended in the first scene.

cool idea!

my party had a chase scene where we were the runners. the dm had allowed us to use athetics or acrobatics (our choice) depending on our individual tactic, in addition to any abilities we had, but we could only use the dash action so many times each. We were running across rooftops to get over the city wall towards the end of the chase, and we were all level 9. our land druid had turned herself into a hawk and flew ahead with my inkling familiar to prepare a safe way to jump over the wall (none of us had feather fall) our bloodhunter and barbarian were a bit ahead because of their athetics proficiency our ranger was using her drake mount to bound across the rooftops our owlin lunar sorcerer was flying above us and casting cantrips to try and slow the guards chasing us down (he was almost out of spellslots) and our kobold Artilerist was falling behind because he recently had gotten a minor leg injury from nearly falling off the roof tops because of my unreasonably high dex (i had rolled well on stats and had 17 dex as my second highest) I, the parties most versate spellcaster( i was playtesting my own homebrew class, a magister using a shadow magic subclass) stopped running to let everyone pass me and cast telekinesis on a fabric awning and used it to engulf the guards, before using one of my subclass features to step into the shadow from a chimney nearby and teleport back to catch up. our druid casted plant growth on 2 trees near the wall, allowing me and the sorcerer to both cast web to make a double layered net between us and the ground to catch us.

0:40 "Doo doo". (Thanks for the vids, man! They're are a tremendous help!)

this is exactly what ive been looking for some great flavor and you can determine how long the chase is for be it 3 checks or 5 checks to make the chase seem longer more difficult.

huh thats actually an intresting way to do it ... ill suggest this to my dm next week

I'm pretty late to the video and all but i do feel like the relative movement speeds should probably play something into this? Like i feel even if the chase isn't about speed alone it should factor in. Particularly if the players combine their abilities and buffs so maybe a totem barbarian level 5 uses the elk buff and then the bard castes long strider and wizard hastes haste on them. They might still have to weave through the crowd but it seems right to reward the players for giving the characters the speed for said barbarian to sprint down down the open stretches and be able to come rushing in and rugby tacking the target.

From a roleplay perspective: I don't see how succesfully slowing down the Rogue would make it so that you catch up as just ONE player and not the whole party. I mean the wizard could/ should technically stand still while casting, slowing the rogue, so the barbarian would catch up even more, but not necessary the wizard...

I do my chase scenes as roll vs roll. If a wizard was attempting to chase someone down It would be the same skill, but if they tried to shoot on the run it would be an attack roll with disadvantage. With every 100ft...if it goes that long, they would do Con checks to see if they were tired. Anything is possible though. If the rogue started knocking things over the monk may parkour easily over it with a acrobatics check while the barbarian runs through it with a nasty straight Strength or Athletics check. The ranger may choose not to run but track a better route and get ahead so there's other options, but in a straight chase its roll vs roll...works for mounted chases as well

Group snill check to make rhe chase more efficient and action based soinds like a great idea. Thank you

Put figurines on a table, do skill checks to move figurines in each direction from both all the players and the person. To simulate moving forward occasionally put something you can interact with like a wagon that moves behind you in a turn. Or have corners to round. Rulers are pretty on fly, you can make athletics checks with disadvantaged every turn to move forward the amount rolled relative to the person you’re chasing. And you can forgo disadvantage to sprint if you’re doing nothing else. When he rolls everyone moves back instead to represent him getting away. It’s pretty on spot ruling “roll a 15 move 15 feet forward. He got a 20 so you’re all 20 feet further away” It’s like combat if the speed you moved was an athletics check with disadvantage.

Hey, long time watcher of the channel, how do you deal with characters with obscene range, like the sorcerer/warlock combo with spell sniper and eldritch spear, our group has one of these characters, and it had this range at level 5. when does the combat change to chase? or if the intention is a chase scene, what is to stop the character engaging like a normal combat? also, do you have any segments on dealing with extreme ranged characters?

The fireball action can easily let the mage catch up, either by doing a so called fireball jump, where the wizards uses the explosion to propel himself forward or let the rogue evade/change course. Thats easily narrated. The rest depend on the enviroment, cant really persuade people to stop your quarry in the wilderness but maybe you can motivate your teammates (which would speak for a team check system) However, its way easier to get three sucesses as a group in comparison to a specific player, as the group of players will have more boni to their rolls (as everyone will start with their strong roles, they profit from bless easier etc) so you would need to increase the dc or the amount of sucesses needed.

I had something similar when I was doing a chase scene where I kept a mark of how close to the runner they were not by feet but just by marking them in a score of 1 to 5 for myself. 1 being way behind, 5 being right on their tail *literally cause it was a tabaxi*. However whilst I allowed them to approach in their own ways, I also enjoyed adding things to throw them off. The runner throws a bead from his necklace of fireballs at a crowd of civilians. The players on their next checks could continue chasing & ignore the threat or attempt to save them which put the ones who help back. In the end one of my players ended up stopping to take a quick shot with a high AC to try and at least shoot the bead away from the crowd or set it off before it reached them. It hit a shop but saved a lot of people.

I like how you did this, but offer the way I have done chase scenes in the past as an alternative. The DC is flexible, but only known the the DM. All modifiers are applied to the DC, not the skill side of things to speed up play (only the DM is doing the weird math). Start the chase by explaining to all the players, this delays the start of the scene but speeds the play during it. I always start the target (the thing they are chasing) at about 4 spaces away (using minis like shown in your video) and have the players select their "move skill" (acrobatics, or just their Dex stat bonus, whatever they choose) and have them use it every round. I then make the scene fluid like a crowd in the way increases the DC, a clear path decreases it, but throw in description to what is happening (The apple cart vendor pulling out into your path, a little old woman turns and slowly crosses the road, suddenly an opening appears, etc). Based on their successes they close distance, failures increase it like you showed. Once within 5 ft they may attempt to attack, grab, push their target and make them stop. My goal in a chase is to create tension. Make it move fast. Don't let the players step out of character at all. And put them on a timer (I just count off on my fingers) to make them select an action quickly. This builds a rapid fire chase with everyone rolling rapidly and I find the players even start to try to talk faster during it as they get caught up in the accelerated play. Afterwards there is the normal combat scene or maybe they caught their target and interrogate them or whatever they choose to do. But this burst of rapid action can make a big difference in the tone of the game session that carries over into other parts of play.

Love ur vids

On Saturday I have a session opening with a chase, and I'm going to try this approach. (Update) It went really well, the players had fun, and we got some good memes in our group Discord out of it. I'm definitely going to use this again.

Do I roll for the quarry, to see if they can fiddle with modifiers for certain tasks the players can do? Like a stealth check to fall into a crowd for a small time, gaining some ground, or failing a strength check to knock over some barrels, losing him some valuable time. Also, would moving the number of consecutive successful moves be good for making faster characters, letting every, say 10ft of movespeed them have faster than the target give them an less needed, and every 10ft less an extra check they need to complete? That way the shifter human in no armor can catch up faster than the heavy armor dwarf paladin. Loved the video, and I'm glad this popped up for me to see.

As someone who has been playing roleplay games since 1984, I still find useful information from watching videos like this. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm not certain why, but for some reason Seth can get away with dropping into characters but yours come across as jarring. I think your videos would play better without them. This is great advice in a chase scene. I'm going to give it a try.

Oooh I just did one of these with my group last Sunday. . . . in reverse. They were running from this swarm of magic Morganite bees with a psychic connection and were trying all sorts of things to get them off their trail before realizing the bee they'd captured was transmitting it's location to the others. They eventually got back to the village that hired them by going through an underground aqueduct system that an NPC had told them about earlier lead all around the villages various locations. They had to collapse the entrances, but they kept failing to so some of them had to "sacrifice" themselves to the swarm (Since the entrance wasn't huge only a few could get through they had to fight off as they were collapsing the entrance.)

Great video, very interesting idea defiently want to try it out sometime. Also a quick question: one of my pcs only cares about gold and treasure and is not willing to do anything that doesn't pay him well. How do I make interesting plothooks with a pc like him?

I've had good success with the three or four chases that I've run with the basic chase rules. I might try one that's a skill challenge like this and use the chase complication roll once per side. Like roll a complication at the start of the round for something that might affect the party, And after their turns roll one that might affect the chasee.

I'm not sure if you have listened to the podcast, "Critical Hit" (not critical role), but they were playing 4E in the beginning of the series, and they had pretty interesting rules for skills challenges, that I would like to implement into 5E. They would go as normal, for the most part, where the player would choose a skill on their turn, but could not choose the same skill twice in a row, however, the next player would also not be allowed to choose the same skill as the previous player. It created a lot of moments that would force the players to get creative, and I think could work quite well in 5E.

I started a campaign with a chase scene once and it was one of the most exciting encounters I think I have ever done. The players were framed for a crime they didn't do and were thrown in jail. They had a choice to fight in a combat arena for their freedom or try to escape and find out who framed them or seek aid from another town. They decided to try to break out and make a run for the next town over. Starting as a stealth mission and eventually failing upon reaching the city streets, I then did my best to have a mental image of the map of the city as a whole. Taking into consideration that the entire legion of guards were after them AND commoners that got in their way with out meaning too. Basically to some it up I set an average group speed for the party and this determined how many rounds/how many successful checks they needed to escape. Then with every round I thought "anything that can go wrong will go wrong" from there I just determined on the fly where these 3rd party factors were coming from. What helped the most was thinking of this as a STORY FIRST and a GAME SECOND. Tell what problems are happening in the story and the players will tell you how they want to interact. Sorry for the novel of a post.

That's a cool concept. Maybe we could make a open world quest by using the mr.x boardgame concept

I play pathfinder 1e and I noticed that your chase rules are very similar to the pathfinder 1e rules with some minor but meaningful changes. The most important being making the players decide which skill and/or action they will use in order to catch up with the culprit. One important thing that you forgot to mention to your audience is that, this can also work in reverse, when the player characters are being chased. Here is an example of how I run my chase scenes, keep in mind the only difference is that, I as DM, dictate the kind of rolls and skill checks to make. [This is primarily for expediency's sake] 1. YOU ENTER A CROWDED STREET. A. MAKE AN ESCAPE ARTIST CHECK, DC: 15 TO MOVE THROUGH THE CROWD B. MAKE A KNOWLEDGE [LOCAL] CHECK, DC: 10 TO FIND ANOTHER WAY AROUND THE CROWD. 2. JUST AS YOU ARE ABOUT TO CROSS THE STREET, A HORSE AND WAGON MOVE INTO YOUR PATH. A. MAKE AN ACROBATICS CHECK, DC: 12 TO ROLL UNDER THE WAGON TO THE OTHERSIDE. TAKE 2D6 DAMAGE IF YOU FAIL, FROM BEING RUN OVER BY THE WAGON. B. MAKE A HANDLE ANIMAL CHECK, DC: 14 TO STOP THE WAGON AND CONTINUE ON. TAKE 1D8 DAMAGE IF YOU FAIL, FROM BEING SIDESWIPED BY THE WAGON. 3. YOU ARE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS, WHEN SUDDENLY YOU NOTICE A UNATTATIVE MAID ABOUT TO EMPTY A CHAMBER POT DIRECTLY ON YOU FROM ABOVE. A. MAKE A DIPLOMACY CHECK DC: 15 TO GET HER ATTENTION BEFORE SHE EMPTIES THE POT ONTO YOU. FAILURE MEANS YOUR COVERED IN WASTE. HAVE A GREAT DAY! B. YOU CAN MAKE A STRENGTH CHECK DC: 20 TO PUSH SOMEONE ELSE INTO THE ONCOMING PATH OF WASTE. HOW RUDE! FAILURE MEANS YOU ARE WEARING IT. YOUR SHOES ARE MAKING SQUISHING NOISES NOW AS WELL SO FORGET ABOUT STEALTH FOR A WHILE. players can choose between two choices. Also I have about twenty of these chase cards so roll randomly, even I don't know whats going to happen. It does require some work but once its done you can rinse and repeat. I do like your idea on making the pc's do the work, that can work very well when you haven't planned one out. Also this chase is strictly for urban adventures, you can also make some for all kinds of terrains and dungeon settings. Love your ideas keep up the great work. Sincerely.

I like your individual chase better than the team chase. I’d combine yours and the DMG, have an initiative, and in init. Count 20, still roll on those nice lists of hazards.

I like this method and reminds of my own method. But how does this work if it is either a pc chasing a pc or an npc trying to catch a pc? Wouldn’t it be much more fair to run opposed checks? Have the rogue say what he does to escape, like he jumps through an apple stand or turn over a barrel full of fish to slow the chasers down.

hi I just subscribed and I have an alternative way when the wizard cast Fireball he has to see if he casted in front or behind where at good person during the chase if it's from in front the person will be forced to turn around if it's a success if it's from behind it will call the person who trip and fall and if it's the direct it will knock the person down or slow them down allowing others to pursue them easier you can grab an item from the environment and throw it at them and if it hits it will damaged then or they can trip on it which will slow them down calling passerbys for help if succeeds they will Corner the person if they can or trying to grab that person but if it fails then the person who called out would be slowed down for stopped and depending on the environment that you're in can change how the chase goes if you're on the road then it depends on how many people carts or patrols are around if you're in a populated town then the person can turn around any corner and hide if you're in the forest they can climb tree tots or hide underneath bushes in case they will hide in the shadows and in heavily populated areas that will go into crowds you losing counter if they get away if they are able to get into a crowd and you're unable to find them in under the four turns or they managed to Blindside you and get away you win by catching up to them scaring them to the point where they willingly stop out of fear or someone in the crowd stops them

also, how do you deal with characters that can dash more than once?, like rogues and monks? do they get more chances for success/failure?

I did something like this not too long ago, but it was the opposite, NPC's were chasing a PC from a rival gang. They chased him out of the city with gunfire & musket fire & into the nearby forest.

I assume you use the same system if the players are being chased, just that they gain distance away from their opponents instead of closing it.

You see I’m a Tabaxi rogue, how would you implement people with enhanced movement speed such as feline agility and double dash or a mounted character?

1:04 Wouldn't want to break mersion!

Hey boss, I tried to do this with my group I’m DM’ing for Monday, well one of the players was very not about it, everyone else was, however that player just cast vortex warp and I was just annoyed at his attitude of not wanting to try anything new and I honestly didn’t have a single way to counter that so the encounter could still go on. What would you do in that situation?

Really like the videos, how often for 5e do you let players use home brew or other out of book rules?

This is a great method would it be the same on horseback?

What about chase scenes where the players are the ones fleeing? Looking to do that in an adventure I’m starting. Any tweaks to this video you’d recommend?