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Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun is an extensive player-facing book that brings the Forgotten Realms to life, serving as one-half of...

I mean, that’s like one of the key fundamental building blocks of European fantasy. The specifics of what technology the preceding...

There’s always a niche for crunchy games. The goal isn’t to do what everybody else is doing and struggle to stand out from the...

Resting in a "Place of Calm and Safety" probably qualifies as overt fiat, but I try to be somewhat liberal with it. Yes, the inn back at...

Rolls for random encounters at regular intervals. That makes it the player’s choice if they want to risk taking a long rest in a...

I’d argue that for those folks it isn’t a better game experience. These things are subjective.

I use my own slightly tweaked variant of the gritty resting rules, but the fundamental issue is that the decision on long rests is...

yeah, but usually a welcome one. No one is really expecting anything negative from going to a haunted house ride either, and they are...

Yeah, I will say one of 5e’s strengths is that it can make players feel like their characters are in great danger, even when their...

I love Matt Mercer, but his skill isn't in balancing combat...it is usually in using his powers of presentation to trick his players...

Agreed. Big fan of having to take your long rest at a haven myself.

To be fair, the sudden and enormous influx of new players 5e brought to the game would have made it impossible to know what “the vast...

When i get a minute, I will dig up the thread. But long story short, I built boss monsters as staged and tiered enemies and managed a...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...

If you look at the threads here, there are MANY people who understood what the DMG said perfectly. But here is not a representative...