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I mean, if you’re doing those things, you don’t really need combat to be balanced. Combat is balanced around adventures where combat is...

Actually 4e introduced it and 5e repurposed it. It means 6-8 combats with one or two short rests in between. Which the DMG explains. It...

And for those people, the 2014 DMG offered the (admittedly poorly named) “gritty realism” variant resting rules. Short rests take 24...

Oh, yeah, some people understood the assignment, but I think a lot more didn’t, and moreover they refused to accept it when it was...

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

If you look at the threads here, there are MANY people who understood what the DMG said perfectly. But here is not a representative...

Oh, they did. It’s just that no one read the DMG. And when people quoted the DMG saying “look, it says right here you should have 6-8...

So the argument is, because the party will approach the BBEG with all abilities ready (e.g. fully rested) they need to be differently...

Yep. Despite the DMG saying exactly that, people have been denying it for a decade.

Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...

It would be simple to do so. Treat the game like a game. Stop worrying about verisimilitude. Rest Update: You cannot take a long rest...

Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the...

Updated survey results, October 2025: So there's been an increase in votes recently, especially in the AD&D 1E and AD&D 2E surveys. A...

Oh, youtubers. Nvm.

not trying to hate but, what does a shaman even do except be druid but spirits? warlord and swordmage i understand as picks but shaman...