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I’ve been trained in 3 forms of technical writing and one of my minors was in English. I have learned how to write, and more...

5 years (82-87) between The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three; 4 years (1991) from that to The Waste Lands; 6 years (1997) between...

I mostly don't build encounters to any guidelines, no. I build them to be challenge to the PCs that'll A) do some work in the narrative...

In principle, yes. In practice, I've never seen combat in any 5e-ish game I've been a part of run anything as quickly as you--and that's...

I doubt D&D will want or can move away from the daily attrition model. As it is, it is opt-in as the game will function if the players...

What the system was built around (at least, according to the 2014 DMG) was "Assuming typical adventuring conditions and average luck...

True. That doesn't make it a good choice, though. Attrition-based adventuring was an issue back in 3e (which had a similar set of...

No, this is bad design. Why wouldn't you need combat to be balanced? That doesn't make any sense. How many of the fights in LotR were...

No snark: It sounds as though you reinvented/repurposed the Mythic Monsters mechanic. I've found that works well for boss-type...

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

Yeah, an occasional gantlet works well both as a pacing thing and as a learning thing.

Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...

Shortening short rests balances things at least as well, IME, and add much less work in the sense of rebalancing spells (and other...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...

Seems to me as though the best approach is something along the lines of "some of both, with some variation." Design things for the...