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Xenolith234 reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Better Monster Design. 6E/BG3 Ideas with
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Kind of a spin off of the Mearls boss monsters design thing. He has identified players are not playing as they assumed. The 5MWD is... -
I am beginning to think the mistake might have been trying to return to professional freelance for gaming. I don't need the money, and...
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Xenolith234 reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
So as Mearls finally admitted and expressed mathematically, though most of us have known it for a long time: D&D's combat was balanced...
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Xenolith234 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I banned hut, rope trick and more.
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Xenolith234 reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General What version of D&D are you playing? with
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Xenolith234 reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
People have been pushing for a toning down of some things that made D&D more threatening. Ultimate result is this bloated hit point...
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Xenolith234 reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Well OSR you can have 1 encounter and have it be threatening. People will always vote for free suger. Then complain about getting...
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Xenolith234 reacted to SpellObjectEnthusiast's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Sometimes being a good gamemaster means being a little antagonistic.
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Xenolith234 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.How did you tweak it?
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Xenolith234 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
I don't think challenged vs. not challenged was that big of a deal. Rather I think that most groups just don't want to get into combat...
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Xenolith234 reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread AD&D 2E AD&D 2e without the verbiage? with Like.
The art choices, while understandable why they did it, are definitely not to my liking in that one. I’m also in the camp of not really...
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Xenolith234 reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
HP bloat also takes a while to dig through. Play B/X some time. So much faster and easier. Modern players want power and...
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Xenolith234 reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...
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Xenolith234 reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
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...
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Xenolith234 reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
Wow.
Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the...