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Aazabaro reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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No it does not, it handles it way worse. Because in attrition model how well you do in the "warmup fights" actually matters. Yes, you... -
Aazabaro reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Yes, and that's why 4e was not pure encounter based design. It had daily attrition as well, and suffered from similar issues regarding...
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Aazabaro reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Yeah, I'm not convinced. "Let's remove attrition but then if we want the fights not to be meaningless we can add it back case-by-case...
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Aazabaro reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
didn't (most methods of) healing in 4e burn your healing surges to function? so while most encounters are self contained ultimately they...
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Aazabaro reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
True. And I think there certainly were some viable babies in that 4e bathwater. However, I really do not think making everything...
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Aazabaro reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
No. D&d was always pretty much attrition over an adventuring day but 5e shifted it from the 2ish,-4ish with vancian spell prep &...
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Aazabaro reacted to Epic Meepo's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
The game is designed to have 6-8 encounters per Long Rest, and (at low to mid levels), it takes 6-8 max difficulty encounters to level...
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Aazabaro reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
This thread is a perfect example of why having the board game take precedence over the narrative is the wrong way to go for a lot...
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Aazabaro reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I had a game where I asked the players if they wanted to ban Tiny hut in this short series of adventurers I was doing. They decided to...
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Aazabaro reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
The rule is unusable as written then, because it includes no more than 2 hours of light activity as a qualifier as well. Well, what...
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Aazabaro reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
That the game has been designed to work roughly like Mearls says has been clear from the get go. That most people actually do not play...
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Aazabaro reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Sorry, but no. This is one of those clear examples of dumb rules that should not be blindly followed. Like surviving swimming in lava...
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Aazabaro reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Quite frankly, nothing Crawford says can be trusted. He just calls it like it is written, whether it's intended that way or not. That...
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Aazabaro reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Outside of walking, nothing on that list is going to cover anywhere close to an hour of activity. Spellcasters don't have 600 spells to...
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Aazabaro reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Yeah. It doesn't take an hour of combat to ruin a long rest. The idea that it would take 600 rounds of combat before your long rest...