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It has a flame tongue, two staffs of striking, multiple suits of magic armor, a couple intelligent swords ..... We got so much loot...

You don't have to follow the guidelines and encounter design norms, you CAN do whatever you want. But saying you don't have to follow...

No it is not. Now you are just making things up. "You can build an encounter if you know its desired difficulty. The party’s XP...

Actually it means the amount of XP is the budget for that encounter or that day. If my budget for a new car is $20k and I buy a $250k...

I get that. The first time I played 5E it was using the Phandelver starter set with the pregens. But in terms of functionality, I...

While I don't disagree with the general thrust of the argument, the VTT (Maps) is very popular and continues to be developed. Now maybe...

Perhaps you don't understand what a budget is.

This thread is in the 2024 forum, not the 2014 5E forum and in the post I made on healing vs enemy damage (which you replied to), I used...

I’ve always loved the Dark Sun setting, but ironically, I don’t think D&D’s rules are the right fit for it. Athas is a world where...

Dark Sun always felt like a game setting wrestling against the system it was designed for, in both its 2e and 4e incarnations. But I...

For our convenience, of course.

Me too on the 2E changes. It is one of few 2E rules we incorporated into our 1E games after 4E came out and we decided to go back. The...

You are wrong. The guidlines for creating high difficulty encounters in the 2024 DMG state specifically: "Spend as much of your xp...

Yep. If a class has Absorb Elements, then the character has it learned/prepped, assuming they're past level 5 and aren't dependent on...

What I said is "almost all" and I believe that is true. I know it is most of them in the hundreds (or thousands?) of 5E games I've...