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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.You gave a consequence of the rest but not why that consequence matters. Look at the next order effects of saying 🤷♂️who cares🤷♂️and... -
tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.No it really is the optimal choice because when you really look at those "problems" it very quickly becomes clear that they only matter...
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tetrasodium reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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sure, but I would prefer to not always have to find reasons for why it might not be the best idea, and want the players to have a... -
tetrasodium reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
it’s not like you can opt out of the rest based approach of D&D either, the only difference is that in D&D taking a rest is always the...
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tetrasodium reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
tight rules do not mean things have to be challenging, it just means they are pretty predictable 6-8 encounters per day does not feel...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Agreed. I'm livid about the many years of needing to argue the point of why I need to do/change x &y or whatever with players who are...
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tetrasodium reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
The table chooses if they are doing Adventure, Cinematics, or Gritty If they choose Adventure, level 1 casters have 2 1st level spells...
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tetrasodium reacted to nevin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
your doing all that in 5 minutes? I can't properly bind one serious wound in less than 5 minutes.
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tetrasodium reacted to nevin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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and different kinds of play would involve different kinds of magic items. Again. Magic items are far more granular and controllable... -
tetrasodium reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Love.
Not in my experience. Many players are quite passive and prefer to wait for the GM to give them somewhere to go and something to do. I...
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tetrasodium reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
If true, its rather ironic that the best selling edition ever was designed mostly by folks who dont play it. It sounds like a modular...
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tetrasodium reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
The original 2013 survey overrepresented and overvalued a group who were never going to buy 5e. And their touch still paints the...
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tetrasodium reacted to lepharaon33's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Yeah, that’s a good point — rest timing really does shape balance more than most people realize. Making it part of the design, like The...
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tetrasodium reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
They knew the problem with them. The reason why nothing was changed was because they found out the issue after they created the books...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Unlike Payne, I think that it's a case too down from corporate hardcore Dunning Kruger and the fact that it took a former wotc employee...