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Does anyone know what the average AC for a level 1 monster is? What about for a level 20 monster? I'm willing to bet that enemy AC...

I am not sure about that, but WotC definitely was not interested in creating one. For that sales have to tank first

Hommlet. One in 10000 huh?

This touches on another thing I’m finding a lot of in modules, overly wordy descriptions of motives and justifications, plots and...

from the perspectiver of someone playing to 12, yes, from the perspective of a designer who designs up to 20, no. As to arithmetical...

I'm not so sure about the bolded. A point-form timeline can be every bit as readable and far easier to understand (and, at the table...

It really is so ironic that all these Hpllywood writers trample over the canon of established fantasy worlds with central stories, but...

I don’t think it is a setting, it’s the stuff that connects different settings, so you can go from one to the other. As the KS said...

The DM running out of steam and-or duct tape is a symptom of the underlying loss of wheels, not the cause. For me, all it needs is a...

20 levels aren’t exactly open ended though they are also the easier ones to balance. I just don’t think a ‘we tried’ gets you much when...

Personally, I preferred 13A's Escalation Die. You can take the risk of going nova on the first round....but it's a big risk and a bunch...

I think it's possible that a lot of these issues are addressed by putting hp thresholds on spells...matches a lot of narratives as well...

I do not think that is why it is beloved and if it were just that the setting would not have survived the change in edition. I think it...

I'm not convinced by the argument that 5E "needs" one. The fact that despite not having one, the fact that it's the most successful...

I don’t know, if you designed a car where the wheels come off at high speeds, I don’t think the defense ‘but only 10% or so ever get to...