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The birthday party goblins in Borderlands made me roll my eyes, but the great thing as a DM is if you don’t like a certain quest or...

Earlier today I got the Hellfire Club Starter set, and I've spent a little bit of time with it checking it out and comparing it to the...

Unless the antagonists are mindless automatons (constructs or undead) have them waver or even flee when the PCs kill a few of them...

These are in order of how often they normally come up, and why Perception - finding hidden things Investigation - realizing why some...

I’m surprised people haven’t ranked Survival higher. The tracking element alone would make it more useful I would have thought.

Fitting, since they share a root with seemly/unseemly

Low levels did get the most thorough playtesting. 2014 legendary monsters were notoriously undertuned, even by the DMG guidelines.

Dude, combat has been hit point based attrition since Chainmail

Not if you’re playing efficiently. One of the design goals back during the D&D Next playtest was for combats to take about 10 minutes on...

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

To be fair, the sudden and enormous influx of new players 5e brought to the game would have made it impossible to know what “the vast...

I mean, that’s subjective, but “I don’t like the way this system is designed to work” is a very different complaint than “this system...

That's literally all of D&D. The game is designed around attrition-based adventuring.

That's because it was designed as a dungeon crawler. Because it had to cover that aspect of play that people would certainly use. That...