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Nope. I don't. We all have slightly, sometimes hugely different expectations and needs about this game. In fact, those MM24 monsters are...

But dragons spit things, don't they? Isn't it kind of their thing? And spitting a ball of poisonous stuff is in fact kinda believable...

I for one very much enjoyed The Monsters Know What They Are Doing, precisely because it helped me tremendously to DM a 5E game. And I...

I don't see that as more or less magical than puffing a poisonous gas (or fire, again)?

I don't see the problem here. It's a miasma ball. Why should it differ from a fireball? Why is it more (or less) "realistic" or...

I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...

The Vast Oblivion in Out of the Abyss: vertical encounter against a crazy Beholder, with side tunnels, crossing bridges and webbings...

An interesting point was brought up in the What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? thread earlier this week...

I was going to say, Eberron lacks progression by design. It's classical starting point (998 YK) was literally designed in lab to provide...

I couldn't agree less. National archetypes are a tired way to build and present a setting. There are many, mny more ways, starting with...

They very much do, at least insofar as they can measure this kind of thing (and they can better than us).

Every time I see it the clickbait nature of this post title of this gets to me. Mearls didn't say that, as the poster admitted in the...

I understand the need (or the desire, rather) from someone to have some kind of hooks and strings baked in the setting to attach their...

In Rime of the Frost Maiden, there are two Goliath settlements (with an interesting feud between the two), a tiefling commune, and...

Leveling (and thus awarding XP) is primarily for me a pacing tool (both for intra and extra-diegetic dynamics), best controled at the...