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Not to mention a lot of the adjustments to this very topic in 5.24 (along with other design choices) also bring things back towards the...

Ehh, you might think so, but the people that hated 4e are a much smaller portion of 5e’s audience than people who never even played 4e...

Yep, which is probably fine if it happens once in a while, but if that’s how most days of adventure go at your table, you’ll probably...

Wmphaaaia added, because that's the key point here: the Adventure Day is not every day, it's a maximum threshold to guide designing a...

Really its because D&D has to accommodate so many playstyles it cant pick a lane. When it does, things tend to get incendiary one way or...

If you’re doing one-encounter days in a city setting you can just crank the difficulty of that one encounter way up. Alternatively, you...

Fitting, since they share a root with seemly/unseemly

Yeah. The Fey take their "oaths" seriously. Flavorwise these are forces of nature. Nature is "good", but one cant really compare it to...

I would go so far as to suggest that stuff like Leomund's Tiny Hut are a direct cause of high Level play breaking down and not being common.

Leomund’s Tiny Hut is definitely a problem, if your players have access to it and use it for resting in dungeons. I’ve only actually...

I don't think with eight hour long rests and Leomund's hut existing random encounters are a viable deterrent unless the GM constantly...

These are mutually exclusive things. You cannot have an encounter that is both random and an encounter with the express purpose...

Both Mearls and Crawford have clarified that the first reading is the correct one, multiple times. Yes its not the best rule in a lot...

I’d say it’s less Blue and Orange Morality, more Blue and Orange legal code.

Why are random encounters a crutch? They’re a tool the DM is fully intended to have at their disposal. There is absolutely nothing wrong...