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I am not for respawning. Never have been. But I am for having a narrative in my role playing game. I am also for designing encounters...

In what world are you pitting 30 ho-hum, regular goblins, who are encountered separated from each other, against four 5th level...

You're describing a static world where everybody's waiting to be mowed down by the party. If the characters invade a camp and kill 80...

So the characters decimated the clan in a huge battle against 20 of them. Battling three more would be inconsequential, and the most...

Yeah, my players have a similar breakdown and it's fine.

The three goblins can cover the hut with dry leaves and branches, climb up a tree and wait with fire at the ready. They can spread the...

I don't know. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. If you think goblins only live in clans of three, and no other goblins within...

Not disagreeing to just disagree, but D&D actually does a great job of balancing all three. I have literally played a yearlong campaign...

And, there is another point. When the game isn't designed for people who optimize, it means that the rest of us can pick it up and play...

That and information. In MtG, it's rare that a counterspell comes out of nowhere. You know what colors your opponent is playing, and...

Or use Hit Dice until they have a long, safe, comfortable rest. You can even give them the: "Every time you heal, you get the healing...

But you don't base the game mechanics around the one power gamer. Most people are not min-maxers, just like most video game players are...

For some monsters, they would probably just leave. Think of the carrion crawler. For others, like a band of goblins, they might make...

It was never about dispelling LTH. It was about how many monsters have a reasonable intelligence to understand that invaders into their...