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Sadras, thanks for the clarifications. Pemerton, re-reading your reply, are you suggesting I should pay attention to the "economy" of combat encounters & short/long rests in 5e? Say: we don't do much dungeon crawl, nor use AdvPaths, is that going to be a problem, possibly a game breaking one?

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Sadras, dice rolling is fine, by me. What I mean is if the conversation at the table is generally going fluently, when rulings by DM occur, or if it derails the story, halting too much the game, in your opinion/experience.

I'm looking for different approaches in 5e, in contrast to my experience in past editions, since I'm going to decide if to start a 5e game, or not. I'm particularly concerned about the combat phase as a whole, if it has an inevitable rigid format to be followed until its conclusion, or there are...

Thanks for the reply, pemerton. In your experience, are there ways to stop a combat, once it is engaged, to avoid it from ending only with the total death of the enemies?

Hi, folks. I have a question for you: this need for DMs ruling out footraces, or anything else, does go along or against the premise of 5e being more narrative, fluent, at the table, in actual play?

In my experience, a major sin of GMs I played with, has been to negate the players having a proper background, or goal, to start with, going also against the rules, for the purpose of railroad: in plain sight, or carefully hidden in a sandbox style game, negating players' agency all the way...