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Unless you are tracking arrows, not any resource that matters.

It's not in the Astral, it's in the deep Ethereal. As my old astrophysics lecturer used to say "space is vuri vuri big." The chance of...

Not sure i needed a video to tell me that a whip wasn't a effective weapon. We have over 2,000 years of recorded history and no one has...

And now it's not in the rules no one needs to. So that's a win. You can put in whatever makes sense in the narrative.

Surveys. I've been asked that question by WotC several times.

5e numbers usually change very little, aside for the level sometimes. Really, people here think adventure writers do complex maths to...

Putting every adventure on a death clock gets old real quick*. And it gets to the root of the problem with the concept - it's restricts...

Not really "since inception". There was no "you should have X many encounters per day" in early D&D. None of the old adventures were...

The people who designed the 6-8 medium encounters per day system also no longer believe in it. Mearls seems to be leaning towards 2-3...

Tiny Hut.

In a universe where we have lawful good populations?! It's supposed to be a safe haven between adventures - just like the Yawning...

No it isn’t. If an encounter requires no resources it, by definition, cannot count towards attrition. And if the parrots raise the...

One out of how many? And I seriously doubt 3 ravens counts as a combat encounter for a party expected to fight an adult black dragon. I...

Unless there is some mechanism to prevent the party taking a long rest until they have completed a requisite number of encounters (which...

They don't. It been nine years since the Death Curse. And the only adventures published so far for the 2024 rules are in the FR book...