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Hence Prfoiciency gating: only allow a character with Prificiency to make certain checks. It's built into the system already.

I too play Performance exactly like this, as a way to stage a whole, well, performance, even if the aim is not to entertain people at...

As I said before. What skills are "best" changes wildly on the game your are playing. I don't generally like the concept of saying...

Well, maybe it should matter if they want to do it...?

Every thing you're talking about here is exactly what I'm saying. It's (a) anecdotal and (b) entirely self-fulfilling. Optimizers go out...

The "establish, action, consequences" loop as seen for instance in Legend in the Mist is a very good way to frame what @Charlaquin is...

As for methods of handling initiative, I think they have much less impact on the pace of combat than keeping up narrative momentum does...

The book is super clear about its expectations, though, as repeated ad nauseam in this very thread: the average group can handle 6-8...

Yeah, a lot of this, especially the quote-unquote "low tier" skills are mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. CharOpers decide which skills...

The brand new (at time of posting) episode 2 of Critical Role campaign 4 has a great example of keeping combat feeling active and...

For me the best skills are the ones the current characters are proficient with. I've seen and DMed games where Performance was king...

To me the revised encounter rules in the DMG24 are an anwser to all of that, changing from an adventure day paradigm to an "each...

I'm sorry, you seem very angry at the game, and possibily at your players. I hope you'll soon find some suitable game for you. I'd...

I hear you, but I don't find 5.24 monsters to be weak sauce at all. My kids are very much afraid of them. As for a design aiming both...

But if the characcters are hurt, exhausted and missing some magic, the attrition did its job. Tension is there. Resting is fine as soon...