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That 100% aligns with my experience. For all the lip service given to the idea that people just need to up their GM game and design better adventures encounters storylines or whatever, it's still a deep pit of no win options for the gm facing players who feel the nova>rest>repeat loop is a...

Multiple posters have made posts pointing out that they have seen the behavior in question. Did you not see them before choosing to imply that I alone am the single GM to ever see that sort of "alien" behavior? It says a great deal that so many of the posters defending the rules involved are...

Trouble is that the bold bits ignore the relevant mechanics. At no point yet has "attrition [done] its job", that point is after hitting seven to nine medium to hard encounters when players have been making tough choices and needed to start really working together as a team to minimize resource...

You have badly misinterpreted the rule. Nothing in it suggests 24 hours of real world table time. Furthermore there are three classes of players relevant to the decision to wait & all three need to be considered due to the fact that the other two are likely to be gm or some fraction of the...

I too have seen far more than one group do it, often with a dramatic sigh and rolling of the eyes as the group piles on agreeing with the course of action. Perhaps your own experience with players outside your personal social group of players is not as broad as you think & could stand to be...

No. D&d was always pretty much attrition over an adventuring day but 5e shifted it from the 2ish,-4ish with vancian spell prep & slower ml to near quantum prep and trivialized rest/recovery across a number of encounters likely to violate point 4 of the Hickman manifesto while claiming it's...

You say that like a gm who has never had a player IMMEDIATELY respond with a shameless "ok so we wait and take one tomorrow" as if even being forced to vocalize such an obvious work around was the result of an unreasonable bit of pedantry from the GM who pointlessly forced the issue. There are...

The cane toad problem prevents fixing it with house rules. Cane toads were first brought to Florida in the 1930s and 1940s to control sugar cane-eating beetles. This initial attempt at biological pest control was unsuccessful because they liked it better to spread outside the sugar cane fields...

No. Wotc published a mechanic that encourages a no win toxic mindset that the GM lacks the tools to feel supported while addressing it. The fact that it took a former wotc employee to stop saying they didn't design a certain number of encounters & such rather than simply admit the obvious math...

"relative calm and safety" is also in the wrong end of the decision. Unlike in the past where you needed a "good" night's sleep and certain metrics of time o day/uninterrupted/etc study prayer etc it's a bell players can try to ring before the gm gets to adjudicate the completed rest. The...

I don't think that is the catch-all weasel wording you are making it out to be because the return is still full total and complete restoration of combat nova power. All it does is set up an adversarial arms race between how much table time the gm is willing to let the players unhappily waste on...

Imo don't think that rest duration is as much of the problem's root cause as the fact that they are almost guaranteed successful barring overt fiat and because they effectively§ have a full total recovery or nothing recovering there is no death spiral risk with calling the GM's bluff to go all...

Rounds not encounters 6-8 encounters with most encounters averaging around 3 rounds give or take. Coincidentally it also aligns well with a big standard 3-5 room dungeon.

Hardly. The math is trivia & it's even easy to eyeball as totally borked. l made this on a whim five or six years ago on a whim because I was frustrated and bored. It's not even the most advanced way I could have done it using things like Excel's lambda function or any sort of actual code...

even better than a vtt that I need to"host" as a GM & former unix SA of a webhosting company is a VTT that comes with a nice & simple .exe I can just launch :D

I agree on those 3 groupings but I suspect that if you look exclusively at people who actually use a vtt you will find a notable fraction to outright majority of the people who talk about group 3 needs are unlikely to ever use or spend money on a vtt. It has this weird dunning Kruger effect...

I don't think I would consider either "hosting" option a deal breaker, but i currently run arkenforge with a touch panel enabled tabletop display during in person meat space play. The big killer feature for me would be meaningful support for the touch panel on the tabletop display so players...

I would have agreed with that being totally reasonable up until ohhh... Twelve or so years ago. When 5e∆ went all in on rulings not rules and doubled down with intentionally overturned embrace the imbalance PC abilities it very much shifted the playing field of what is reasonable. It's tough...