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Not really, if you wanted the game to work well without needing magic items (which is a goal I thought they might ditch for 5e24 but thankfully didn’t) then adding some HP is the better way to go.

You could also have a stable natural dungeon ecology that only had to deal with pesky adventures once every generation or so. They l idea that there are hundreds or even thousands of adventurers running around raiding dungeons is a very foreign concept in the D&D games I’ve played

Make the most of what?

I don’t play spell casters, not sure what you’re talking about

Maybe, not my experience though. Of course we only have one caster in our group. In fact, he usually goes with damage spells because monsters always seem to shrug off condition inflicting spells (ie they make a lot of saves)

Interest, I generally find the 5e25 versions of monsters more flavorful IME. I am a player not a DM though so maybe my perspective is different. But they (‘24 monsters) seem to have more interesting actions, reactions, bonus actions, and legendary actions from the combats we have had since the...

My local FLGs in the Midwest (USA) is out of the PHB and MM, but they have the DMG. I asked and they said they can’t keep up with demand. I don’t know if that is because they can’t get enough or they are selling so fast.

Care to share?

Now you have me interested: what are the armor rules?!

We are playing 2014 I just had a had to the 2024 books handy. Haven’t you heard about people throwing 3x deadly encounters are their players in 2014?! What we do is not that extreme, so I don’t think we are out of the norm. FYI, The encounter math is basically the same but simplified in 2024...

I believe the Tiamat and Bahamut entries in the lore glossary also mention the first world

We have 5-6 depending on who shows up. At those numbers right around level +10 is appropriate for a real challenge (risking TPK). Anything less than that is basically a guaranted win IME I just checked the new DMG guidelines and is what we do falls in line with the 2024 hard encounter. So I...

Notice I said a CR appropriate solo which is in the CR 24-26 range. So your are looking at AC in the 20-22 range (against our typical +10 to hit).

I believe the MCDM game is using damage only, not to hit rolls.

We limit the whole thing, decision to resolution, to 30 seconds per participant. It has made our games so much more fun. I heard Mike Mearls talking about the game he is working on recently aand he also expressed the positive impact RL time constraints can have on game play. His players said...

Well the 65% baee assumes no magic items. So it makes sense to adjust things if you use magic items at least. We don’t use magic items in our game and at level 15 we have around a 50% base hit rate on CR appropriate solos. 5e really does work better with no magic items IMO.

5e was designed to have a 65% bit rate which is indeed higher than many earlier editions. And a complicating factor is that rate is accurate only if you don’t give the PCs magic weapons. So, if you give the PCs magic weapons, and you want to have the same hit rate, then you do need to increase...

I don’t understand this sentence

I think so too - and some of the overall TTRPG market with it I would guess

Just wanted to point out that the OP is not about how it would affect you, but what you think the effect would be on the market / TTRPGs/D&D