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Might as well put investigation at the bottom since every DM seems to forget about it and call for a perception check instead.

I don't agree. There's a time pressure if the world or the GM puts it there and the OCs care about it. That simply doesn't happen all...

The Seelie merely have a better Public Relations department than the Unseelie do. ;)

Improv, as a stage performance, requires an impressive amount of prep. Even late-night standup comedy that interacts with the crowd...

Lol you may have a point.

8 steps, interesting, I see some overlap with my own way but with less prep. My only exception are encounters of consequence, ones that...

I prep to improvise. About 30 minutes or so of prep for a 3 hour game using the eight steps.

How can one not improv? I like a rough framework to flesh out. Though also does a setting count?

I haven’t played that many prewritten adventures, but in the ones we played, we probably had a dozen encounters total. It probably was a...

Err, no? I can’t think of any that fit that. Not even ToA, which has a lot of 1 encounter per day hexcrawling. Most don’t have 20 rounds...

Dude, combat has been hit point based attrition since Chainmail

I would prefer the assumptions were that one adventuring day can be completed in 3 hours including all 3 pillars.

I think more people didn't run the game that way and were perfectly happy or blissfully ignorant of the whole thing: 5E serves two...

Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...

Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the...