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I could happily sit at level 5-6 for ages.

Story cohesion is why we do it also. Levelling is a trivial consideration, though the missing players' characters do get xp (and are...

We also leave characters in play when necessary for the story - for us, it doesn’t matter for levelling, but it sure does for story...

It's 1e that I'd like to see opened up.

Solid definitions. IMO statblocks should always be absolute. The PCs' statblocks are - the players would justifiably howl if their...

The 4e minion rules literally say that they are for use when the DM wants to throw a lot of monsters at the PCs without it becoming a...

Yeah, just last night in a game with my kids my daughter decided to test her Sleight of Hand skills by stealing her brother's money...

Until it attacks... 4e doesn't allow henchmen? And if not, why not?

The bolded is far too deep in metagame-side thinking for my liking. If memory serves (this was 17 years ago!) the trap did something...

So it would seem. Still doesn't make it right. But I can - and will - take a game mechanic that doesn't make any in-fiction sense and...

If I'm playing, say Horizon Forbidden West, when you start you're fighting monsters like burrowers. As you level up, for a while the...

Changing rule paradigm, I can sort of get abord with. Changing stat block for the same creature however should be completely...

So if a 20th-level group of PCs meet a minion Ogre and one of the 20th-level PCs has a pet cat on her shoulder, what then? More...

It depends on primary intent. For me, genre emulation is secondary.

You start off really well. CR is inherently flawed because a monster is going to be easy against some groups of its CR and hard against...