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That's not the read I'm getting. One group wants attrition of offensive power throughout the day*. You use a fireball on those 8 orcs –...

I mean, praise for bounded accuracy is pretty universally praised: I would reckon the real feedback at the time was similarly positive...

Here is the thing: a lot of people find 5E super fun.

What I'm detecting in this thread is really two different schools of thought: Attrition is bad and we should refocus balance around one...

Dumai’s Wells is my answer. He wrote like a good composer of music. Builds up to crescendo then unleashes with a fury. First six or...

I mean, you can pick nits around some of his prose, but the guy could simply flat out write some really epic scenes. Dumai's Wells is...

Sad news, my condolences to the family and friends.

One of the things I notice: Most measures against 15 minute adventuring days or 5 minute nova loops also affect more "reasonable" play...

To me the revised encounter rules in the DMG24 are an anwser to all of that, changing from an adventure day paradigm to an "each...

There's new Extra Life Charity items for sale! The D&D offerings this year are centred around a map of Faerûn by Andrew Kolb, who had...

I’m sure games prior to this point used it, but not any versions of D&D. Or at least, not consistently. I do recall some products that...

The Long Earth, The Long War, The Long Mars, The Long Utopia, and The Long Cosmos, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. This is in...

yes, Robert Conroy's 1920: America's Great War posits a scenario in which the U.S., having remained neutral (and the Central Powers thus...

Just finished The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi’s latest and the first Old Man’s War book in a while. As such, with him building on the...