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That wont fix the problem. They've turned combat into hit point based attrition since 4E. Without nasty abilities or immunities...

Attrition model takes time IRL. 6-8 encounters may be 3 or 4 sessions. And after 1-3 weeks between sessions people tend to forget...

To be fair, the sudden and enormous influx of new players 5e brought to the game would have made it impossible to know what “the vast...

I mean, that’s subjective, but “I don’t like the way this system is designed to work” is a very different complaint than “this system...

Modern players are more 5MW vs older players imho. I normally go 3-5 combats 2-3 rounds each. Current session they'll get around...

That's literally all of D&D. The game is designed around attrition-based adventuring.

Right, it made a more focused fight simulate a full Adventure Day. Pretty clever.

And for those people, the 2014 DMG offered the (admittedly poorly named) “gritty realism” variant resting rules. Short rests take 24...

Well at least someone finally admitted it, including the 20 rounds a day. I have long standing limits on resting, though from 4e (it...

Oh, yeah, some people understood the assignment, but I think a lot more didn’t, and moreover they refused to accept it when it was...

The next obvious question is: would 5E be as wildly popular if the majority of referees got this right? That is to say, if 5E wasn't...

If you look at the threads here, there are MANY people who understood what the DMG said perfectly. But here is not a representative...

Oh, they did. It’s just that no one read the DMG. And when people quoted the DMG saying “look, it says right here you should have 6-8...

Yep. Despite the DMG saying exactly that, people have been denying it for a decade.

Our group has switched over to A5e and it's great. We will use A5e for any future campaigns as well.