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I haven't seen Taliesin be a spotlight hog at all - certainly not at the table. He just likes quirky characters with "dark" backstories...

House of the Dragon is scripted. Each episode is about an hour. Each season is, what, 8 episodes? Ten? In the entire amount of time...

So what are the characters doing in the camp, exactly? Aren't they here for something other than killing gobs? A treasure maybe ? One...

I elevator pitched a campaign a while ago based on The Wandering Village, if you’ve played that game. The village of the PCs is on the...

@Remathilis - I feel much the same as you do. So, when I'm running my game, I want it to be a lot more hopeful to be honest. I'm...

Out of curiosity, what's the age range? I tend to game with people over 40. Heck I'm the second youngest in my current group and I'm...

I have. Met them in droves when running 5E. It‘s one of the many reasons I quit running it. The players pushed to rest as often as...

I apologize, the fact that you were specifically talking about short rest abuse WAS lost somewhere in there for me. That said, a...

What I was specifically thinking about was the (2014) DMG advice in Chapter 3 creating adventures: 2. Determine the Villain’s Actions...

The biggest one was the one you quoted right after me, and other posts from that poster.

That’s back to “the rules are perfect, the problem is the players”. The solution, therefore, is to get rid of the players and the rules...

You have people, in this very thread, who discount the DMG guidance. Who say the encounter math is ALL that matters. And any attempt to...

These are the "only" options if we assume that each encounter is its own self contained unit. And if so, there are plenty of solutions...

But how would Mearls know about that? Not like he was a named author on the book or anything!

I agree that there are issues and I agree that a day of time passing often is not a meaningful cost, but I also do not think that any...