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Actually 4e introduced it and 5e repurposed it. It means 6-8 combats with one or two short rests in between. Which the DMG explains. It...

And for those people, the 2014 DMG offered the (admittedly poorly named) “gritty realism” variant resting rules. Short rests take 24...

How do you handle it?

And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...

Oh, yeah, some people understood the assignment, but I think a lot more didn’t, and moreover they refused to accept it when it was...

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

I know, I just don’t like that. I don’t want silver weapons to be approximately 10% more effective against shapeshifters than normal...

Broadly speaking? Terrible. Not that there aren't exceptions, and I admit hit points specifically seem to be more appropriately matched...

So the argument is, because the party will approach the BBEG with all abilities ready (e.g. fully rested) they need to be differently...

Yep. Despite the DMG saying exactly that, people have been denying it for a decade.

Oh, they did. It’s just that no one read the DMG. And when people quoted the DMG saying “look, it says right here you should have 6-8...

It’s almost as if stating one’s assumptions when designing a system could actually help GMs running that system! Crazy!

Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...

sorry. Tired of people getting away with this kind of stuff. Kind of has put us where we are in the world...

I mean, I’m pretty sure it isn’t personal data unless you make it meaningful by linking it to something else tangible about yourself...