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There can be time pressure, it just isn't always or nearly always a thing in every adventuring activity IMO. Even when it is there, it...

Parity in results (rather than creation method) is old school. You could more or less create NPCs however you liked but if it could...

Going to help you out here. People introduced relevant real world personal experience because the bad rule was defended on being too...

Excellent point. I use similarly broad tables in my Level Up game.

Random encounters don’t have to just be wandering monsters. Any complication you want to be able to occur at repeated but unpredictable...

I suspect it's because players really like it, but maybe that's just me.

Me neither and I think its existence is a serious design flaw. It is crazy to first tie the whole game balance to there being this and...

The tomb full of undead. Far less likely to generate time pressure on its own than your count's mansion scenario

Some are. Not all of us.

The rules about resting aren't exactly "murky" IMO, but you have every right make your own houserules at your table, so long as the...

I don't use Leomund's Bunker in my 5e, but yeah, pretty much.

Nah. We'll be chilling in Leomund's bunker. Besides, I don't think it is plausible for random encounters to be everywhere. But it...

That is IMO a decent way to generate pressure, especially when the in-setting circumstances don't do that job already. But even that...

There’s always time pressure if you roll for random encounters at regular intervals. Just saying.

What bad faith? The rules is that you can not benefit of more than one long rest within 24 hours, meaning that you can benefit from...