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Micah Sweet reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with
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I don’t really care what it did at gencon, for one that might have been too early for it, for another whether I like a game or not is... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
..." Too the same extent" is doing A LOT of heavy lifting there. It was harder to nova because classes outside the wizard (and lesser...
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Micah Sweet reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Why do you think they are unaware of their own capabilities? I personally can 100% feel the difference between being recovered already...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I think they must know something like it. They know that their powers restore by resting, but that it cannot happen repeatedly right...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
In the days before non-magical healing and-or ubquitous wands of CLW were a thing, the number of available healing...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Characters do not need to be aware of exact minutiae of the rules, but they must be aware of things the rules represent and assuming...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.IMO the setting (ie, the fiction) comes first, so the mechanics have the job of explaining the fiction, not the other way round. Your...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
Old school doesn't have the problem to same extent. I attritioned some players out with very few '"easy" encounters over a few days...
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Micah Sweet reacted to bedir than's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Wizards know exactly how they regain spells, as the rules explicitly state (using the Basic Rules on Beyond); You can regain some of...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
You may have already seen this, you probably have, since I'm always late to things, but there is a pretty neat free 5e product called...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
When 4e came in with its "bloodied" mechanic I had hopes that it was the start of a move within D&D design toward a (relatively...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
To me, those seem like selling points of not-old-school games. Old-school to me is, by contrast: --- story-emergent, i.e. most if not...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.There you go. Change the rules to make the game you want!
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Micah Sweet reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
LOL we changed that absurdity. Travel Rests (8 hour on the road) - recovers HD only Long Rest (24 hours in a safe environment, no...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread So what's the deal with solo gaming?.I would recommend looking into Solodark, the solo play Shadowdark game. It's free!