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mamba replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.yeah, especially since they gradually shaved off most of the actual attrition… 6e should move away from that to a per encounter approach... -
mamba reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves... -
mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Actually 4e introduced it and 5e repurposed it. It means 6-8 combats with one or two short rests in between. Which the DMG explains. It...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
And for those people, the 2014 DMG offered the (admittedly poorly named) “gritty realism” variant resting rules. Short rests take 24...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Oh, yeah, some people understood the assignment, but I think a lot more didn’t, and moreover they refused to accept it when it was...
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mamba reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...
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mamba reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Oh, they did. It’s just that no one read the DMG. And when people quoted the DMG saying “look, it says right here you should have 6-8...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...
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mamba reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
It would be simple to do so. Treat the game like a game. Stop worrying about verisimilitude. Rest Update: You cannot take a long rest...
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mamba reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
For me, the overarching problem with that "particular narrow experience" approach is that every time I or the table wanted to do...
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mamba reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Eh, I think it's more nuanced than that. Mostly because the game wasn't ... well, designed in the same way that we think of today. We...
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mamba reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Ok, so none of what you described is "play to find out what happens" What it means is "The GM ALSO has no idea what will occur next in...
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mamba reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm honestly not sure what people mean when they say 'play to find out what happens', I've seen it used in a load of different ways...
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mamba reacted to Gorgon Zee's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
In an early post, I suggested that, for me, "modern mechanics" pretty much menat "mechanics not meant to simulate a reality". It is...