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Not by me, you're not, for any of the above. The encounter is the encounter, and for better or worse the chips fall where they may.

I was a player in a group of about 7 players in a 2e game and we were all 5th-8th level. A single 1st level cavalier bluffed us down...

Not the case here, unless one also DMs. Many of our forever players have either never read the DMG and MM or, if they did, it was 40...

If the players win that epic fight easily, good on them.

I did just this once, and it was the funniest thing ever. 9th-10th-ish level party are in a forest, on high alert for legitimate...

It just depends on the nature of the affliction. I like to use varied mechanics for these kinds of things, so that each instance stands...

"Other" - all of the above, with one exception: straight hit point damage is boring. Affliction effects should be highly variable...

I'm actually pretty agnostic to this but I like it when it's varied, and has an impact on the game. I don't even mind the bookkeeping...

It's not official, but nothing stops you from adding "Returning" to any magical thrown weapon as a property.

Sure - he attacks with the mace when he doesn't want to risk burning charges out of the Staff of Striking. What's not shown, and yet is...

Thing is, in older-edition D&D there's a whole pile of rules the players never see, and aren't expected to. Combat and save matrices...

No. But if two rounds into what you'd hoped would be an epic battle all four thugs are down and the captain is sinking fast, having...

Perhaps. To me this is just as bad as fudging in the players' favour. If they get their unexpectedly-easy kill, why not just let 'em...

My point wasn't intended to be specifically gamist, or any other -ist for all that. I do, however, insist on mechanical symmetry...

Yeah, even if something is uncommon, its a mistake to assume it doesn't exist at all in the gaming populace as whole. I've seen people...