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I think it was more that WotC realized that virtually nobody played the way the DMG recommended and they wanted to actually make money...

Prior to the 2024 DMG, most attacks that dealt poison damage first had to hit with an attack roll, usually dealing a very small amount...

Yeah, I will say one of 5e’s strengths is that it can make players feel like their characters are in great danger, even when their...

Oh. My. God. This is precisely and exactly what I've been arguing as a flaw in 5e's design since before it was even CALLED 5e. Twelve...

By the way, anybody notice how monster recharge abilities are almost always Recharge 5 or 6? That’s a 1 in 3 chance, in a combat that’s...

Haven’t gotten the chance to yet. I’m talking about classic 5e, because that’s what Mearls was talking about in the opening post. I’m...

Dude, combat has been hit point based attrition since Chainmail

I said it 2015 got told to "shut up Zard you're wrong". Got the 5 power feats right kinda.

I knew this and said this for years now. Under "normal optimization", casters' offense craps out at around round 15-25. Also an...

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...

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...

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...

I agree: even though I did not count xp budgets beforehand most of the time, if I checked after a fight after a hard or medium...