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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...

Na its changing demographics. They did ask about how many encounters. But huge influx of new players play differently. I've noted...

Do you build encounters according to the guidelines in the 2014 DMG? Including the XP multiplier based on the number of monsters in the...

If you stop caring about verisimilitude and "treat the game as a game", you will divide the player base rather severely IMO. 4e more or...

DM specials that have done the best. 1. High AC. 20-22 2. 300+ hp. Baldurgs fate goes to 400-666. 3. Greater magic resistance or 4...

Yes, it's subjective, but considering the number of people who aren't playing it with 20 rounds of fighting per day I think I have some...

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

When i get a minute, I will dig up the thread. But long story short, I built boss monsters as staged and tiered enemies and managed a...

Actually 4e introduced it and 5e repurposed it. It means 6-8 combats with one or two short rests in between. Which the DMG explains. It...

Shortening short rests balances things at least as well, IME, and add much less work in the sense of rebalancing spells (and other...

And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...

I legit solved this problem and am super happy with it.

If you look at the threads here, there are MANY people who understood what the DMG said perfectly. But here is not a representative...

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.