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Depends on what you mean by bloat. They don't, as a concept, contribute to the hp you have available within one encounter (except with...

I'd be careful about that kind of talk around Ms Weatherwax.

What I'm detecting in this thread is really two different schools of thought: Attrition is bad and we should refocus balance around one...

I think Healing Surges are a genius bit of design as they allow for rapid post-battle recovery of hit points, although with a limit...

You sort of need to have something along those lines to discourage excessive long resting (as discussed in another recent thread)...

I think one of the culprits is that much of the playtest was done with the Caves of Chaos dungeon, which feature almost no interesting...

That is not true. The 3.5e DMG had about two pages about both ad hoc XP rewards and story-based awards, both for non-combat encounters...

It could explain things better, but there is actually a definition in the 5.0 DMG: Deadly. A deadly encounter could be lethal for one or...

Update: it is an Asimov novel: The Currents of Space. Credit to u/Commissar_Tarkin over on Reddit - The heart of the internet.

I've long been a proponent of blast spells having various side effects, and those side effects should ideally be tied to the damage...

I think a contributing factor is the lack of a middle ground when it comes to PC resources. 4e has powers that can be used at-will, per...

Not so much different versions of D&D no, but probably by doing different RPGs – e.g. a modern, paranormal, and/or sci-fi game. That...

Given Wizards' history of layoffs, I'd be very hesitant about uprooting my life in order to apply for a job there – particularly on the...

Because long-term, satisfied customers lead to more customers. The questions then become: how many more customers? And how much effort...

First time I encountered a system like that was actually in a TSR game: Advanced Marvel Super Heroes. You wanna buy something, make a...