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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Often, I find that it is helpful to pair sticks with related but distinct carrots. Helps the players feel like you aren't just making... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Two Simple Ways to Make Combat More Engaging.If you want combat to be engaging, it has to be worth engaging with. Create genuinely varied terrain which actually affects...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Frankly, the claim that there always is such time pressure is what is ridiculous. "You cannot ever wait 8-16 hours. Period. Never. Oh...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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There can be time pressure, it just isn't always or nearly always a thing in every adventuring activity IMO. Even when it is there, it... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I don't disagree with you here. But it is the GM's job to present the situation so that there is time pressure if they do not want the...
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EzekielRaiden 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.
...wha? Why on Earth would they think that's a good idea? It's clearly not meant to be an in-combat spell...any spell with a casting...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.As if your "this situation had time pressure, therefore ALL SITUATIONS EVER ALWAYS have time pressure" isn't a thought-terminating...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to bedir than's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
This is the nitpicking I warned about and expected. I'm afraid it would be unreasonable to require me to give an entire summation of...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Then again, D&D has a lot of mindless monsters, golems, undead, slimes etc. Like a while a go in my campaign the characters were...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
If the pattern is consistent it can be investigated and acted upon. You can choose not to act, but it's a choice, and acting in the face...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I don't agree. There's a time pressure if the world or the GM puts it there and the OCs care about it. That simply doesn't happen all...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
What you described is in fact pretty blatant railroading. The word no is a tool in the arsenal, but only when it makes sense in the...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I understand why people reach for the 2e comparisons — it’s the clearest precedent we have for overextension and audience fragmentation...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Micah Sweet'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 disagree. Once you notice a pattern you can exploit it. You don't have to, but IMO choosing to do so isn't a "that guy" behavior to be... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Except that WotC really didn't, because the DMG has a LOT in it that aren't about the playstyles and it doesn't have new optional rules...