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But it is just a suggestion. You can, and I have, run much less than that. We typically have about 2-3 encounters per day and I have...

Preferably with waves of enemies, cool terrain and stakes bigger than kill em all.

If you lack any planning and rely on old school rando generators, yeah its sort of going through the motions. Urban and wilderness can...

No, if you want to have "set piece encounter*" you would be expected to use the whole day's worth of XP. It is right there in the DMG...

I'd assume that is adventuring days, not every single day of the life of the PCs. While undoubtedly some days will result in a number of...

That is not what I mean when I say it. I typically mean to make them interesting and not just +bonus to hit and damage or AC or a Save...

Here is the quote from the 2024 DMG: Are Magic Items Necessary? The D&D game assumes that magic items appear sporadically and that...

I can't see who you responded too, so I don't know the specifics of the issue, but I agree the explicit intention was for 5e to work...

I have you seen Mike Mearls take on magic items for his 5e hack Odyssey? At first it didn't sit well with me, but I let it sit for a...

That has nothing to do with what I asked: where does it say you must have 5 encounters per day. The correct answer, it seems to me...

Yes, and you said : "...explicitly tells people to use bare minimum 5 encounters a day,..." it doesn't do that so I asked your were it...

Were does it say that. Here is the part about the adventuring day and I don't see anything about 5/day. The Adventuring Day Assuming...

I like 5E and I like the 2014 version better than the 2024 version TBH. I don't think 2024 fixed anything and actually made the system...

So they start in 7 years, right on time for the next edition... ;)

OK, you quoted me so I assumed you were talking about me!