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I never roll for random encounter, I always choose to have one prepared in advance because I use VTT and I need time to make tokens...

"relative calm and safety" is also in the wrong end of the decision. Unlike in the past where you needed a "good" night's sleep and...

Just making Long Rests a "Place of Calm and Safety" goes a long way. I definitely fall into the crowd of people who tends towards a few...

8 hours short rests make sense given it's your overnight sleep but do long rests honestly need to be a whole week to serve their...

Rolls for random encounters at regular intervals. That makes it the player’s choice if they want to risk taking a long rest in a...

It's interesting to see Draw Steel!, and likely other RPGs, address this issue in their core mechanics. In DS!, your most powerful...

I tend to agree. However, the modern playerbase likes the "press shiny button" modern game design while disliking the "why can't I press...

The problem is, that long rests give back 100% of spend ressources no matter what. So all challenge attrition gets reserted after a...

Hey, my old thread :D That excel sheet is the basis for my homebrew monster difficulty ^^. I wanted to say, what Mearls says seems to...

I was thinking about the two short rests between long rests and how that should be handled. For “balanced” days that would be two...

In a decade of playing 5E I've literally never had a combat go that fast.

This is kind of where I am. I like how everything works in 5E, more or less, but I don't care for a bunch of filler combat where...

It is a dopamine machine: Mike Mearla himself compared ktndjring one of the Happy Fun Hours to being like a casino, but the players are...

I didn't think you were crazy. 4E has a similar problem to 5E though. The problem is modern design and the differences between...

Oh. My. God. This is precisely and exactly what I've been arguing as a flaw in 5e's design since before it was even CALLED 5e. Twelve...