Been thinking about bringing in an outside friend to role play or at least control the the boss for the up coming battle. Being able to stage a fight where the boss honestly has no idea of what the players will do or what their skills are but has absolutely no hesitation about trying to kill them seems like it would be pretty cool. And know matter how much you try as a DM you can't not know things and even in a grim dark game like we're playing it does really suck to kill your players so there's always the desire to pull your punches even if you don't do it. Having a boss that not only goes straight for the throat but is also played by someone who thinks differently than the rest of the encounters my players are used to seems like it would make it truly unique fight.
That sounds neat, as long as your players are cool with the idea. In my experience neat sounding ideas have about a 50/50 shot of actually working out at the table, good luck!
Yeah I'll run it by them but I think they'll be cool with it
Honestly, you should lean into the chaos and just find someone on craigslist to do it.
Then REALLY nobody will know what happens next.
Yeah, a disturbing number of random tabletop players/DMs really get off on doing unpleasant things to the setting (and the other players' characters) just to see what falls over when they push it. :kombucha-disgust:
As others are saying, super cool idea but run it by the players first
