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Crimson Longinus reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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I thought so too, until I was introduced to the horror that is Leomund's Tiny Fallout Shelter. -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I've been screwing around with things recently. Designed a DM combo monster. Kinda similar to a mythic critter. Reskinned a...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
So, one of the big issues from my perspective is that the narrative consequence for resting feel fuzzy. One way to deal with this is to...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
On the other hand, some adventures are basically static, and have no ability to react to the player's actions. Acererak's Tomb of...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to nyvinter's post in the thread D&D General People make amazing D&D Art with Like.
Made some messy brushes last month and it was great. And today, same brushes "failed" me and it become very clean.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I always said that if I won the lottery, I would design a RPG that focuses on political intrigue, group combat, and mass combat and...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I just finished running the third session of an ongoing political intrigue arc in my D&D campaign. We have used plenty of the rules...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
D&D actually does a really good job at that with a few minor tweaks. You also need a really good DM, though, because a DM who doesn't...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to GobHag's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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I think political intrigue with lots of personal drama is the worst, boardgamey is one of the playstyles that it should be good at IMO. -
Crimson Longinus reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Quoted for truth!
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
These are the "only" options if we assume that each encounter is its own self contained unit. And if so, there are plenty of solutions...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Campaign is becoming absurd at this point though, and probably not what the GM had in mind as "fun."
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Crimson Longinus reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I think the game in itself, in all of its parts, is designed to engage players in the fiction. Not to say that it's a given in all and...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Interesting. If we were to adjust the dials on encounter creation so that every fight (especially boss fights) assumes the PCs are at...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Sure, but one day is not a lot of time and keeping constant time pressure at such a pace becomes contrived. Also, what is the GMing...