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Because there is no problem if people want to undershoot, it just makes the game easier.

Yeah the adventures are default easy mode. Very easy mode. And it's usually a few critters. 3-6 generally.

I’m not sure how you work that out when an adventure has three encounters. Frankly, I find that a preposterous claim. Rime of the...

Players have just as much reason to ignore the rule as WotC has. Bad rule is bad and always has been. Better to pretend it was never a...

There used some effort to do so, with things like the Death Curse in ToA. But it’s more so people can’t complain about WotC not...

Heh, I consider low-slot bloat to be a bug, rather than a feature.

If it had been mentioned in the rules, WotC would feel pressured to design their own adventures around it, something they are clearly...

People are perfectly happy playing whilst having a narratively sensible number of encounters per day, and 5e is the most commercially...

Once someone gets sixth, fifth and fourth level spells to use in combat they have plenty of low level slots to use for out of combat stuff.

WotC’s stats show it is.

Sure, but the AJ movies were less terrible.

I couldn't get through it, it was terrible.

But couldn't act, especially not posh English.

Not true - I love it, because it’s associated with my childhood memories. So I wouldn’t want it changed (to, for example, make sense)...

My current group has one, plus a healer-warlock, who I would consider secondary. They are well past the level when they would consider...