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I’m counting both under the 5e umbrella. My understanding was that TSR editions had no real notion of game balance, at least in the...

I think it’s the second-best balanced edition of D&D. Not a high bar, but it’s something.

Oh, the ambiguity of text-based communication! What I was intending to express is that my interpretation of the fickleness and mischief...

The difference between designing combat to be engaging vs. designing it to be over quickly.

Yeah, that’s what I meant about them changing the XP thresholds from a floor to a ceiling. It makes it look like they shifted the...

I think the higher number of weaker encounters may have been a product of the goal to make encounters short. Which was a direct response...

Our game is 2014, but I have reviewed the 2024 PHB and DMG and selected some things as inspiration for house rules. Mostly individual...

Huh? Four kobolds, 25 XP each, with a x2 multiplier for 3-5 monsters is a total of 200 XP. Four level 2 characters have an XP threshold...

Yes! Someone gets it!!

I think this makes sense for the 5e cosmology as well. Because Humanoids have "souls", it is possible to enter the thoughtstuff of the...

Well yes, but actually no. The 2024 encounter building guidelines specifically advise against encounters with more than two monsters per...

I like to treat the Feywild as very much like Pangea in the Neolithic Dark Era for Werewolf the Forsaken (shoutout to my nWoDCofD...

In Scottish folkbelief, the "unseelie" associate with fiends and undead, whence the Shadowfell court of the Raven Queen has some...

Notably, 5.24’s encounter building guidelines aren’t all that different from 5.14’s. The biggest change is the removal of the XP...

Yep, cause 4e was designed excellently. Just presented in a way that turned a lot of players off.