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This is the key phrase. You cannot “average out” cars and bicycles and expect to get an outcome that is useful to either motorists or...

Nope, I wasn't there, having given up on D&D years earlier. The current rules seem to be full of creative vaguery to me. Very much in...

Deadfire is good, apart from the central plot, which is terrible.

...explained Basil Exposition.

Is not the Stranger Things boxed set a Universes Beyond type product?

It's a problem that the game has to handle, because it's D&D's USP. By specialising, you have a far smaller market, and WotC is too big...

It's going to depend on the players, but I have had players interested in this in a Traveller campaign. Traveller is just much better at...

That's how we got 4E lol. Worked out well.

That is ridiculously hyperbolic. If your players find an encounter too difficult there is no reason for it to "ruin a campaign" or even...

While it wouldn't really bother me, this would add too much complexity for WotC to be comfortable with and also a lot of players. "My...

So this all goes back to the OP. Where one of the original 5e designers is saying "yes our assumptions about how players play was...

I think people are largely unaware of how many encounters they have, and how many rounds of combat. And it clearly is going to vary...

And if the casuals did switch they would be the same as the 1E hold outs in 3.0. Their opinion wouldn't matter. Lose the casuals...

Yup. My theory is most of the fanvase is actually casual. This meas 4E was fixing problems they had no issues with and were likely...

Plenty of GM books got by just fine without an encounter balance system.