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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Sure that's spellcaster enemies solve the problem. But that's the point. The 5MWD and Anticlimactic Boss fights are caused by the... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I halve spell slots and do 3-5. Sleeping in a city, fort, or bastion with full amenities gives you full slots and lets you go to deep...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.The core issue is for many monsters, they cannot realistically generate equal power as a fully rested party of adventurers to convert...
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Yeah. It’s wild. I know they play the games they’re designing, but it almost seems like they’re in their own bubble with no contact from... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e.I think he was more saying how some classes assumed a offense or defense or utility buff at certain levels so when you were designing a...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e.Having 2 U to cast it meant you had to really dedicate to blue to do it early. I still think D&D could benefit from having lower cost...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e.Which is funny because if I recall correctly counter spell was mostly shifted to the side and relegated to older formats and they made...
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Oh! Ok, so he’s not saying that they didn’t intentionally overtune blast spells, but rather that their initial math probably lowballed...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e.I think both Mikes are such big proponents of modular design that those who go listen to then will be as well But as a whole, 5e fans...
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That They (and the playerbase) currently do plug and play from 5e adjacent systems which is also a great thing for the playerbase; The...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair.Kinda reminds me of the Noble - Grim, Bright-Dari setting alignments. To me: Dungeon TTRPGs are best as Grimbright, Strategy and Solo...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.One thing I've tried with is to put enemies in factions with their own logistics and organizations. It would determine how many losses...
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It measures threat. Encounter building works like this: If monster and PC levels are equal: 4 minions per PC 2 troopers per PC 1...
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And ironically, how old were most of these old people when they started gaming? A lot of them like to make sure you know they’ve been...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class..Personally if I were to able to redesign D&D, I'd "demote" Druid to a subclass of Cleric (replacing Nature Clerics) and make Ranger the...