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Overall argument is that modern players are doing XYZ. That's how they play. Mearls may be exaggerating but I dont think its by much...

I had a mentor when I learned on BECMI, and later on 1e. Neither system had a combat balancing system that rated monsters like CR does...

They were not even willing to supply UA variant subsystems a gm could point to and say "no I'm not an EvilKillerGM and reject your...

There's no way to know which of you is right, so his speculation is just as valid as yours.

Plenty of GM books got by just fine without an encounter balance system.

Conceptually, the idea seems sound though the numbers could use some tweaking. If the goal-length for an encounter is 3 rounds then...

I think it's not so much that they intrinsically want to play the game that way as they've been conditioned to play the game that way...

Trial and error is the answer, yes. Beyond that, all it needs a bit of perhaps-intentionally vague guidance suggesting the DM compare...

5.5 has already removed encounters per day. Its an art form not a science. We've had 3 editions in a row essentially suck at it...

How accurate do you expect cr guidelines to be?

Not seeing a lot of faith in your fellow gamer here. We were all new once, and we all worked through to get better.

I'm glad someone else commented on it while I was taking the time to find the pages in question. As often as we have had to hear how 5e...

That's my point. Not admitting it and not trying to fix it for nearly a decade is their fault.

If a sizable portion of your player base is not playing the game to your settings....than yes that is a design flaw. For example, in...

I don't know if that's true. You still get xp for overcoming encounters even if you don't kill the monsters.