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Charlaquin reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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yeah, but usually a welcome one. No one is really expecting anything negative from going to a haunted house ride either, and they are... -
Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.They had Freeform skills in the first few packets, and I loved it! Narrowing it down to a set list was one of the changes I was most...
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Charlaquin reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
It is a dopamine machine: Mike Mearla himself compared ktndjring one of the Happy Fun Hours to being like a casino, but the players are...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Oh, ok, so it was meant genuinely. In that case, yeah, I agree. This is excellent advice for DMing 5e!
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Charlaquin reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Facetious? That's my basic DM advice for adventure planning. Create an encounter Record who's winning at the end of round two Look...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.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...
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Charlaquin reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
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...
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Charlaquin reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
5e was coming off the heels of 4e, which was much more of a tactical combat game, and I think some of that expectation was still baked...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I mean, I think I’ve been on the same page as you regarding the analysis of how the combat is designed. I just think it’s a good design...
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Charlaquin reacted to Elvish Lore's post in the thread Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue with Like.
Mercer is doing what I've seen other forever GMs do which is play antagonistic characters because they're used to being in that role...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue.My understanding is that elves’ ultimate destination in death is the same as everyone else’s, but that the elves get to skip the journey...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I would focus less on the amount of real time it takes and more on the number of rounds it takes. If 10 minutes seems blindingly fast, I...
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Charlaquin reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
10 minutes for a combat seems extremely fast for anything that (a) uses a battle map and (b) is more interesting than "there's an orc in...
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Charlaquin reacted to Gradine's post in the thread D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it. with Like.
It was a truly great show. Well... except for the gas leak year. We don't talk about the gas leak year. I appreciate that you are...
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Charlaquin reacted to Gradine's post in the thread D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it. with Like.
I want you to know that I mean absolutely no offense when I say this, but this is unbelievably naive. At the very least when we're...