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I have seen more than one group try to do this; as has been said,, the game mechanics incentivise it, so by that metric it is...

No. D&d was always pretty much attrition over an adventuring day but 5e shifted it from the 2ish,-4ish with vancian spell prep &...

People keep saying that, but it simply wasn't true. I've been playing since 1983 and my first experience with PC power having to be...

Yes, if a 4E party has only one or two combats per day, it can handle much more powerful enemies or larger groups of enemies. The...

It introduced in the sense that it gave a name to something and the rules were built with the concept in mind. It predades 4E as an...

The rule is unusable as written then, because it includes no more than 2 hours of light activity as a qualifier as well. Well, what...

That the game has been designed to work roughly like Mearls says has been clear from the get go. That most people actually do not play...

Totally disagree. In the first, you're avoiding the problem with the system to scenarios that have a better chance of dealing with its...

Sorry, but no. This is one of those clear examples of dumb rules that should not be blindly followed. Like surviving swimming in lava...

We are in the era of the 7 lunch break work day now!

You say that like a gm who has never had a player IMMEDIATELY respond with a shameless "ok so we wait and take one tomorrow" as if even...

The cane toad problem prevents fixing it with house rules. Cane toads were first brought to Florida in the 1930s and 1940s to control...

Yeah 1 fight could also be a decent challenge.

And just to add: Why do we even want attrition based design for more than one combat? Because it gives the DMs more tools to pace the...

The problem again is, that you have to use the "crutch" of random encounters to deny a long rest or just handwave a NO to long rests...