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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, you can cast 1 per fight and go down to Cantrips and SR features. Maybe you hold back and save 1 more spell for the boss. Or you cast a definitive or utility...

Outside of 2014 monks, monsters can deal with most short rest features.

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 good spells. Seven spells of 3rd level or greater at level 9. Seven And every full caster in the party has this. All of them with seven high power spells...

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 designed for taking 50% of the daily resources.

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 the only option is quantity.

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 much time and a lot of money in 5.0. Halve spell slots and other daily resources and most of the problems go away.

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.

5e was designed around ending sessions with your resources not at 100%. Every single edition was designed for you to end with your PCs incomplete unless you were running Gygaxian Hubtowns . That's is why Vancian magic was chosen. Because you were supposed to literally erase expended spells so...

I heavily speculate that many are still playing 5.0 due to the Sunken Cost fallacy.

The point of this thread is many DMs don't like their bosses being too easily beaten by PCs and not having to force higher CR or stats of guidelines which can TPK easily.

Nope. Draw Steel, Daggerheart, other RPGs and even 5.5e are just reinventing the fixes 4e introduced. Just not as ugly

It's was D&D. It just was with 10 fixes when the community was ready for 5 in 2008. In 2025 today, the community wanted all 10 of 4e fixes (playtested better of course). That's the fundamental problem that D&D has. Everybody knows what the issue is when it comes to bosses. The problem is that...

Another thing to remember 5e was mostly playtested off a single adventure. IIRC The bosses were at the end of dungeons or solo partykillers.

Nope. The whole system wasn't a bad idea. It was just to drastic a shift. If 4e Essentials were the original idea, it would have been loved. The issue was that Essentials came too late. The people who like 4e didn't need it. And the people who would have liked Essential had already abandoned...

I doubt that. If 4e had open playtesting, it would look more like 4e Essentials.