Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
What's New?
Latest activity
Register
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Minigiant's latest activity
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
The issue isn't the damage spells. It's the shenanigans spells and the suck spells. If you have 7 big spells and you have 7 fights...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
Yaarel's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
Consider short rest spell points. A fullcaster at level 17 has 18 points. This can be two slot 9 spells, or three slot 5 spells and one...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
Outside of 2014 monks, monsters can deal with most short rest features.
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
Yaarel's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
Short rests mitigate novas. Because they refresh several times during the day, there are less resources at any one time. So the novas...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
Guys, we don't have to take away long rests. I'm just suggesting that a 9th level Wizards slots don't look like 4/3/3/3/1 + X That's 7...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
Short Rest were never the problem. Monsters were designed to take 100% of a part's short rest power. The issue is they were not...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
Campbell's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
How is a fiction where a wizard has more or less resources than the other more believable? How does having 4-6 spell slots versus 2 or 3...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
Why? Why do you need 10 spells a day when you wake up? 5MWD. Is a Power x Quantity issue. 4e showed fans refuse to sacrifice power so...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
Marc17's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
Thread is growing faster than I can keep up with. Some random thoughts. I'd say the largest surprise would be that Mearls not...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
5.5e is unsatisfying to many and still has the Boss problem because many fans didn't want it to diverge from 5.0 because they spent so...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
Hey, that was the beauty of 4E. Every fight your green and red powers were available. And you never got more than 4 black dailies.
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
5e was designed around ending sessions with your resources not at 100%. Every single edition was designed for you to end with your PCs...
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
replied to the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
.
I heavily speculate that many are still playing 5.0 due to the Sunken Cost fallacy.
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
payn's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
Awesome, i'm glad you find it easy. Not all folks have the time and some of us want WotC to do it. I get why they dont, but id like them to.
Oct 16, 2025
Minigiant
reacted to
EzekielRaiden's post
in the thread
D&D 5E (2024)
Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily
with
Like
.
Indeed, the edition everyone accuses of requiring "lockstep" fights or the like says, explicitly, multiple times, in multiple places...
Oct 16, 2025
Top