how do you make an interesting combat-heavy 5e campaign that

>>49180171
Is that the f2 mod?

Have reasons to the fights

Have character to the fights

Hell, even gimmicks can be good for fights. I did that several times. My favorite was a goblin with a whip that only tripped the PCs while the goblin's dogs did the damage and managed to escape into a deeper room of the cave twice. PCs enjoyed killing that guy when they cornered him.

>>49180192
nah just fanart/mockup

I'm sorry to say that extremely combat-heavy games is not exactly what 5e does best.
Combat in 5e is done best if each encounter has a defined purpose and it's not there just to fill out time and roll dice because it's "expected". By making combat more a part of the objective rather then just "some monsters, and then you fight" and focusing on things like terrain and allowing PC's to be creative with stuff you can spice it up.

But just pure dungeon crawling combat WILL get boring with 5e's relatively rules-light system.
I suppose you could use the Battlesystem rules Unearthed Arcana they released for mass battles, but that might end up having the same problem.

Environment

Put in things in the environment for the sides to use to their advantage.

>>49180171
Monster hunting. Have the players research weaknesses and resistances - not just from books, but from witnesses and the monsters' victims as well.

>>49180171

http://theangrygm.com/the-angry-guide-to-akicking-combats-part-1-picking-your-enemies/

http://theangrygm.com/the-angry-guide-to-kicka-combats-part-2-battlefields-and-battlefeels/

http://theangrygm.com/the-angry-guide-to-kickass-combats-part-3-lets-make-some-fing-fights-already/

>But I don't want to give that fag clicks

Well I'm too lazy to pastebin 3 different articles, so I suppose we're at an impasse

>>49181180

Did I say 3 different articles? I meant 4 because this one's worth reading too.

http://theangrygm.com/manage-combat-like-a-dolphin/

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>>49181180
>>49181221

>linking to theangrygm

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>>49181976

>Too mad to hear someones opinion before judging it.

>>49181999

I have never seen theangrygm being linked here without it being used for bait.

Either way, the articles I've read were also poorly written garbage to boot.