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The director of security in hasbro used to work for...pinkerton.

So its the other way around, got it, that is still a mighty awful way to design a adventure. Something gotta be cut.

What is a piece of DM advice you see commonly spread around the DnD/TTRPG community that you simply think sucks and is bad?

Because there are two seperate teams working on WotC modules, a story team and a design team. The design team makes a actual adventure that is more open ended and supposed to be a broader scenario, then the story team adds a odd "story" too it, that usually adds a pretty linear plot too a more...

Wonder if they are hinting at the return of the Nentir Vale, which was introduced in the back of the DMG. But greyhawk would be great

Hasnt Giffyglyph done this already with his monster maker here?

Oh no, this isnt just in line with his words, but also my experiences after adjusting the encounters, and some design bits from the game, It definitely helps, but yea. You can also look at the design you are talking about here. "Monsters are balanced when your exactly around this amount of...

Nope, after each encounter you are expected it assumes you have most if not all of your resources at all times, from health and short rest stuff. And assumes you have at least 1 or 2 of your biggest long rest spell slot. It does not design like that because the design your describing is...

That is a seperate issue, but the encounter desing of the game doesnt really care for that at all. It assumes casters have most of their spell slots, and every ones big daily resources they have at least 1 of.

My point is that it really doesnt have anything to do with encounter balance if the design of encounter assume every character has all of their resources. The actual issue here is that the encounter building rules have been broken for awhile.

The adventuring day isnt something of old, is a concept from 4e. Because characters have a limited pool of healing from healing surges, and a lot more daily abilities. 5e's concept is just this basically. In old editions your adventuring day 100% depended on healing items and healing spells...

I remember a while back i made a post about how the adventuring day is based on hit dice, as resources and nothing else, and after thinking about it more and looking into a few matters on this. Jeremy Crawford asserts that the adventuring day is a maximum but not a minimum here. So why is the...

Notice all of the characters on the artwork are from the original books.

Im not talking about the class system...at all. Im talking about the feat system.

I don't think its anyone job to curate what players personal choices are, if they wanna make a damage monster go for it, if they wanna make a skill monkey, go for it. Trying to dictate or pigeon whole people from a customization system is silly.

I feel like feats kinda do this already too lol.

My problem with this argument always has been. Wizards themselves found a great solution to this problem. Just give them a Default option, where its entirely optional to swap out of, thats it, that's all that is needed genuinely, give them simple feats like Tough, or Savage attacker that they...

I actually did, this thread has been going super fast. Its honestly pretty cool.

That is already what we have in the game...for the exact same reason. Though people see me giving free feats as just giving martials more damage, but it actively does give them way more utility too, if not more than damage, there is more utility feats than damage feats lol. This method is...