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IME adventures have almost always been about achieving a specific end, even if that end is merely to strip a site of anything worth more...

IMO - if the party is truly surprised, then the party doesn't get an initiative roll. Their first clue there is trouble is when the...

Dont make it a level 1 thing. It comes online at level 5, say, when you are already used to your character. That would also dovetail...

Even if your neck is tingling and your spidey senses are on full alert, how can you effectively dodge something you don't see coming?

Sure, if there's loads of opponents I'll batch them together somewhat, like you say. The batches still re-roll each round, however...

The post I was replying to when I first brought this up had as its main point somethng to the effect that trivialized combats aren't fun...

To me, "cinematic" means what it says: the combat you see in a movie, whether it's Errol Flynn striking dashing poses during swordfights...

I've definitely run surprise 5e14 RAW, and I've house-ruled it on the fly, and I've basically said "ok you, the fighter, get advantage...

I would have thought the bolded was a non-negotiable fact of life. You declare it, you do it. No take-backs. Even more so in older...

When something can be done to move that needle without slowing things down, do it - even if it goes against RAW. And sometimes if...

I mean, there’s always a fix. RAW and/or homebrew RAW will make this situation be weird, so we do something else that makes sense.

There's a surprisingly short distance between the two bolded bits here, at least in my eyes. The very term"cinematic combat" brings to...

Like it or not, though, the rules to a large extent determine the types of decisions the PCs (and by extension, their players) are...

Thing is, you weren't just speaking about your own game play in the post to which I replied, you were speaking of modern gaming trends -...

These are both insulting and disingenuous comments. I am confident that you both know what he meant.