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SSeramus reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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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... -
SSeramus reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
More to the point, the problem is aimed to solve was PCs going nova and ending a fight before it was a threat. I wanted the battle to...
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SSeramus reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...
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SSeramus 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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SSeramus 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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SSeramus reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
It’s almost as if stating one’s assumptions when designing a system could actually help GMs running that system! Crazy!
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SSeramus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be?.Should definitely be room. Rune Knight, Echo Knight, World Tree, Ancestral Guardian, etc already exist. The door to supernatural fighter...
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SSeramus reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be? with
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Yes. Heaven forbid we try to expand that. "Sorry guys, we made a supernatural warrior class already and we can't make another ever... -
SPerhaps a simpler model is this: Who does something to whom?
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SThat one requires a little restructuring: It may be of concern to him/her.
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SSeramus reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot? with Like.
Flip the order. It may concern he/she It may concern him/her. There you go.
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SSeramus replied to the thread D&D General Is Your DM Out to Get You? [Humor].I once had a lightsaber, and the DM literally had me roll to see if I tripped going up some stairs. I fumbled and killed another player...
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SSeramus reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General Is Your DM Out to Get You? [Humor] with Like.
I like big crits and delight when NPCs score them against PCs. At my last session, the Warlock NPC fired off two eldritch blasts at the...
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SSeramus reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot? with Haha.
In my never-run planning for a Blackmoor campaign, I was going to have the Egg of Coot being a space-warp that had some sort of...
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SSeramus replied to the thread D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot?.There's a post about that on these very forums! To spare a click: "Oops! I forgot to post one that is rather glaring. According to...