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Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
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Does anyone here miss the five minute adventuring day???
Oct 10, 2025
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How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?
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https://www.enworld.org/threads/mike-mearls-explains-why-your-boss-monsters-die-too-easily.715658/
Oct 9, 2025
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Feywild technically doesn't mention the Seelie and Unseelie Court
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The Seelie merely have a better Public Relations department than the Unseelie do. ;)
Oct 9, 2025
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If it's good enough for Gygax; it's good enough for me.
Oct 9, 2025
MichaelSomething
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Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
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But it's easy to make long dungeons full of random encounters that gradually drain PC resources full of character development and story!
Oct 9, 2025
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To be fair, the sudden and enormous influx of new players 5e brought to the game would have made it impossible to know what “the vast...
Oct 9, 2025
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Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced.
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At the very least, the subfaction that hates balance should. I know they're around here somewhere...
Oct 4, 2025
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Think of these game studios like OSR style level one characters. You have to be willing to tolerate dozens of deaths until you can get...
Oct 3, 2025
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Will the complexity pendulum swing back?
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How about we compare TTRPGs to formal dining??? If it's less complex then a formal dinner, we call it rules lite...
Oct 3, 2025
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Incorrect. AI slop is an excellent way to describe the massive onslaught of low quality plagiarised crap filling YouTube, Kindle, search...
Oct 3, 2025
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I think you’re right that 5E’s accessibility expanded the player base in ways that benefit the whole industry. But I’d add that the...
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I see no reason for battle here. Rules-light games being more popular, for very understandable reasons, has nothing to do with whether...
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The way I see it, we’re not looking at a pendulum swing so much as a branching. The industry didn’t collectively move toward...
Oct 3, 2025
MichaelSomething
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Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced.
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I thought Enworlders would be thrilled to hear this??
Oct 3, 2025
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What System(s) Should I Suggest?
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Lancer??? https://foundryvtt.com/packages/lancer
Sep 27, 2025
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