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Don’t know how DNDBeyond manages their links. Go here https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/ Scroll down to the DMG part Select Combat Encounters Et voila

They don’t lay this out in any of their official monster guidelines, but I’ve noticed that if you’re following the defensive CR and offensive CR averaging calculation, that the higher CR the monster gets the more it is for those ratios to be equal or for the offensive CR to be higher. Monsters...

I’ve seen two flaws with Hasbro’s approach: First, “this is how the balance is done” has fundamental mismatches between reality and effect. If I say “ghoul’s parlayzation is worth scorching ray damage”, I’m completely neglecting the play impact (slowing combat, frustrated players) that...

I completely agree with your evaluation. It’s almost hostile design to homebrewing, if I were to wear my conspiracy hat. Anyhow, I linked a video earlier with the time stamp 3:45 and the original source of that tidbit from Jeremy:

Speaking strictly mechanically, that’s my least favorite thing about Hasbro DND. I think it’s at the core of their long-standing attempt to take the magic the gathering business model as a pseudo template for the direction of DND.

I'm just going off the free rules on creating a creature, which is pretty anemic, but I'm noticing – leaving aside the missing maths chart (I assume that'll be somewhere in one of the 3 books) – it's also not representative of the designers' own process of monster creation. We have a point of...

Sounds like they've developed really useful material on adventure preparation, incorporated some aggregated community wisdom (that example about "making death saves a narrative moment" popped out to me), and packaged it all with a bit more organization, more "show not tell", and a lore glossary...

Congrats to Chris! And may he be shielded from the corporate executives at the parent company.

This is abuse. Calling someone ignorant, no matter how much I appreciate the philosophy reference, is abusive. Period. Instead of all but saying “you are ignorant” to me, a little more explanation of your thinking is all that’s needed to change an unnecessarily abusive post to one that’s...

I didn't steal the man's work, your honor. My bot did.

What if my players have impaired my judgment and made me second guess my instincts by plying me with whiskey and subverting my expectations? ;)

My hot take: There is no simple spellcaster class in D&D.

@Parmandur I learned something that I thought might illuminate our earlier conversation. This is from YouTuber Ginny Di who had an advance copy of the 2024 DMG. I know I know, YouTubers aren’t the most reliable, but she got quite specific about encounter building differences between 2014 and...

Yeah, I gotcha. Also @pukunui caught that I flubbed it on the giant sizes - it was a giant-size mistake. Heh. ENWorld is indeed a great community. We can sometimes be opinionated dingdongs, but we're experienced and well-intentioned opinionated dingdongs. ;)

Oh hah, i had a brain freeze. Thats what I get for trying to help!

Ok, had a chance to dive into your map, and I've marked it up... 1st, your scale of 1 square = 10 feet is off for this dungeon. If we used your scale then that big box in Area 12? That would be one stone giant. Clearly, that won't work. Instead, this map implies a scale of 1 square = 30 feet...

I see. Yeah, we are reading Christian’s news very differently! I think you’re reading that bit about “no mention of the adventuring day” as pure semantics & that with the “pacing” advice there is effectively no substantive change here. Whereas I’m seeing the “creature budget” approach being...

Huh. I am understanding the text of what you’re saying, but I’m not parsing how that’s possible. How, in the 2024 DMG’s encounter design rules (from what we’ve learned from Christian’s preview) do we get to 6-8 encounters per day without saying “6-8 encounters per day”?

Oh I was teasing you. :) I’m not a fan of those settings, but the fans I DO know…oh boy are they fans!