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You have a task to do, do you sit for 24 hours before taking a break and then doing it? Unless the character is Deadpool, I expect they...
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The Great Wizard Extinction.
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Bless is great on a Monk, but then again, so is Hunter's Mark.
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If your family and friends look for exploits to one up you all the time, it's not a healthy table at all.
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It's not understanding the rules, ot's exploiting it. At my table you can do an exploit once, maybe twice, then I will ask you to stop...
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But that is still really weird and borderline That Guy behavior. Play with people who want to actually play, if this is such a big issue...
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This is weird and would get people labelled as "That Player" at many tables. Find better players or talk with them about it bothering...
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Heh heh... well, * I * think someone who is more concerned with just "winning" combat encounters in an RPG than they are the stories and...
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Completely random gear works great in video games because of a technique we call farming. As in "keep fighting the same mobs or bosses...
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No, the "we will sit and do nothing for 24 hors just to rest" is stupid and I refuse to believe anyone would do that. If this is an...
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What is pointless? I did that for larger modules like Isle of Dread, and it was still a time-saver to choose which encounter to use in...
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Why are random encounters a crutch? They’re a tool the DM is fully intended to have at their disposal. There is absolutely nothing wrong...
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You're not wrong. Best way around this I can think of is to make the boss inaccessible or impossible to damage until some other...
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I never roll for random encounter, I always choose to have one prepared in advance because I use VTT and I need time to make tokens...
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In 2014 Dungeon Master's Guide it is written you can only take a long rest if your party a) reached their daily XP budget of defeated...
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Solution: Focus fire on the boss, who is likely the commander or doing something important. Once boss falls, small fries may run away...
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