Recent content by maeve

This is essentially my literal reading of the effect of the Invisibility spell (although obviously not the intention). I think enlarge/reduce would not work, because the spell applies an effect to a creature that the caster can see, and is therefore excluded by the Concealed effect. However...

Interesting. I'd noticed the change from a threshold to a budget, but hadn't really thought through its impact (or lack thereof) on the XP ranges. I'm pretty sure the designers of 5.5e are among the people that said this, which doesn't help matters. I recall them saying that that the old "easy"...

While improvements in the wording are clearly needed to clarify intention (e.g., they should probably get rid of the 6 to 8 encounters wording), I am unsure how "an XP budgeting systems that recommends a couple Short Rests" meaningfully differs from what is presented in the Adventuring Day...

If page limits are really the issue, I'd personally be happy with a D&DBeyond article (series) – or even a separate product a la 4e's Wizards Presents books – dedicated explaining their design philosophy in enough detail for me to understand why they made the choices they did.