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Then I guess my response to that is: I know what I want out of pacing, and I, personally, cannot want "constant" pressure in the way...

I just would not be able to accept as realistic a world where nothing ever has a time limit on it. Again, I'm coming from a position...

I would not say that, as I presented it, it does. Some people are going to be good with lots of pressure almost all of the time. Some...

I've called this out myself, very recently, within the last couple weeks at most. I was dismissed with, in brief, "It's in our...

That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that the GM does, in fact, need to apply pressure for there to be pressure. The way...

The problem, of course, is that constant pressure is absolutely exhausting. Like, you're right that the GM needs to do this, but the...

I did this occasionally in 4e D&D - eg when the PCs fought Torog, I haven't dug out my notes to see what level of encounter I treated...

The official Dungeons and Dragons YouTube channel posted this. Apparently it’s a playmat they’re selling...

Is this some D&D version of Roko's Basilisk?

Is this like, an ill-conceived reference to some movie monologue or something?

I studied this market. Dungeons and Dragons has less then an eighteen percent chance of surviving the next two decades without the loss...

So do I. Casting aspersions isn't going to help you on that front.

I find that this is pretty much the standard line. There's not much point in even making the attempt because, again IME, it's just not...

And this plays pretty much straight into @Benjamin Olson's point. Because, as a player, you never really know if THIS encounter is DM...