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The difference between designing combat to be engaging vs. designing it to be over quickly.

If your family and friends look for exploits to one up you all the time, it's not a healthy table at all.

Huh? Four kobolds, 25 XP each, with a x2 multiplier for 3-5 monsters is a total of 200 XP. Four level 2 characters have an XP threshold...

That’s a fair observation, but success doesn’t automatically validate design—it only proves the current form is marketable. The recoil...

So just to ensure I'm being fair, there are things about 4e that I think were great, but it had plenty of flaws as well. The number...

Sure but that was my point. That one tweak had a massive impact on the experience of the game went for different groups.

my only real exposure to 4e is here on Enworld, and honestly it sounds pretty great all around apart from a personal bugbear against...

What 4e tried to do was divide the "combat spells" and the "non-combat spells" into two different buckets. The combat spells were...

Yep, cause 4e was designed excellently. Just presented in a way that turned a lot of players off.

So daily and weekly abilities. Just like with 5e gritty rests...

Ehh, you might think so, but the people that hated 4e are a much smaller portion of 5e’s audience than people who never even played 4e...

The game is designed to have 6-8 encounters per Long Rest, and (at low to mid levels), it takes 6-8 max difficulty encounters to level...

You’re right—D&D’s flexibility wasn’t accidental. It was a deliberate choice to stay ambiguously neutral, refusing to pick a lane so it...

I would go so far as to suggest that stuff like Leomund's Tiny Hut are a direct cause of high Level play breaking down and not being common.

Couldn't you create a random encounter table and make tokens for every creature on it?