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Nonsense. The bathwater must be disposed of, infant and all.

We played the 5e version of LotR and had a lot of fun with it, but the amount of baseline 5e that has to be stripped out is enormous. No...

it’s not like we have to guess this…

and humans got by without penicillin, doesn’t mean they should abandon it once it was discovered If the lesson needs tweaking, then...

because the best way to teach swimming is to toss someone into the pool and walk away…

Fine. Let's remove the encounter building guides (and the treasure guides too while we're at it) and let DMs learn it the old fashioned...

So DS! exists as a game which tries to extract the core ideas of 4e and get rid of a bunch of the D&D sacred cows that were left over...

It's probably not a good idea to simply forbid resting until the requisite number of rounds are complete - a few bad rounds could lead...

Yeah, but that's a lie though. You need to go at least double, probably triple deadly to get that. Normal deadly is at most what they...

Two Things. 1. The problem with 5e can be easily solved by (a) Introducing a Travel Rest and converting the Long Rest to a 24-or-48...

you are not a big darn hero when you beat up the (relatively) weak and steal their stuff. You are a hero when you stand for what is...

Of course, then you are giving the DM absolutely NO guidance on how to build encounters. How many orcs are appropriate for a low-level...

CR represents the relative power of the monster, no need to throw that out. Your examples all are about encounter building, not CR. I...

not if the game is not even there because it was not released / finished yet, as someone mentioned… that is obviously true

I said no recently. Silvery Barbs spell.