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schneeland reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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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... -
schneeland reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...
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schneeland reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...
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schneeland reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
I didn't hear back from moderation, but I didn't really need to: I decided not to redo the 4E poll anytime soon. As for doing another...
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There’s actually been a big drop since 2024 was announced. The peak was just after Covid.
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Feeling called out here
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schneeland reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
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schneeland replied to the thread D&D General Has 5e become noise?.I was about to say the same. My feeling is we were at peak 5e shortly before the whole OGL hubbub. Now maybe I'm just not watching the...
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schneeland reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Has 5e become noise? with Like.
Hmm. I watch crowdfunding projects pretty closely and, if anything, I'd say we've leveled off or declined in the number of new third...
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I had a great group from '09 until '20 before the pandemic hit. It basically ended my decade long group. I also went through a divorce...
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schneeland reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Free League’s cloth Middle Earth maps with Like.
Man, now I wish I had kept my Ultima maps.
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I love Free League’s cloth maps of Middle Earth… and now so do my walls!
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schneeland reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...
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schneeland reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the...
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schneeland reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General The D&D Memes Thread with Like.
