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Don't get me wrong, I'm not convinced this is a good option and I don't plan on allowing it (I have access because one of my players got the book), its just not as broken as some people seem to think.

Nope. "Each secondary caster contributing to the spell must expend a spell slot of a level greater than or equal to the spell’s level (no action required). If the spell fails, these spell slots aren’t expended."

I can't provide a specific response without knowing the details of the specific scenario. But it goes back to the players decide and I don't guarantee success or safety.

Up to the players. Maybe they need to regroup and try a different approach. Maybe they can't achieve the particular goal they had in mind. Maybe they push on and hope for the best. Maybe they do the hut thing and hope they aren't discovered or if they are that they can come up with some kind...

I've explained what I do and why. Taking a long rest when the enemy is aware that some dangerous group is in the area is going to be risky.

If I have an issue with any spell I have a discussion with the group and talk about why it's a problem. In my campaign, sometimes the hut will be beneficial, sometimes it won't. But it won't be automatically guaranteed to be successful. The example of the hobgoblin mercenary army was from a...

Radical concept. I've done this with a few spells - counterspell comes to mind. Had a chat with the group that it was a boring spell and that if the party uses it the NPCs will start doing so as well. We chose not to use it.

The whole purpose of patrols is to identify dangerous enemies. Eliminate them if you can, report back if you can't. But ... there's nothing new here. Sometimes the hut will be useful, other times it won't in my game. If you run it so that works out well for the PCs every time no matter what...

What are the options? Ignore it? Spend hours investigating? Stand around while the characters wipe out the entire patrol? There are so many variables and different scenarios. The enemy may not find the hut, they may find it 2 minutes before it expires, they may be mindless undead. I'm just...

PCs tend to be a different breed than just about anything else wandering around. They are typically the SWAT team and special forces which conditions people to act assuming that whatever the GM puts in front of them is a reasonable challenge. But if I were in the military and spot what I...

I think it can work sometimes but I would reserve this for special or unique monsters, the ones you want to stand out. Having 9 subparts might also be a bit much for me but that doesn't change the concept. On the other hand I almost never use solo monsters (they've never worked well under most...

They don't know exact numbers they just know to be on alert. It's not an issue if the hut is not noticed, but then the hut wasn't needed for defense in the first place. Even if the enemy had no clue they were under attack, if they're on patrol in the back 40 and notice this magical dome what...

It doesn't take a hive mind for the patrol to be told "There have been reports of a small invading force, keep an eye out for anything weird. Whoever it is took out several of our patrols already so don't try to deal with it yourself." Even if it's not anything that formal, news of an enemy...

There was a storyline? ;)

Even better have an NPC cast it when the PCs are defending a location.

So a patrol knows there are dangerous enemies around who have slaughtered some of their allies. They notice the camp and tiny hut. They can Shrug and ignore it because they don't realize that people can cast spells and just chalk it up to "That's weird, we'll report it in the morning"...

The patrol sees a magical dome when they know their base has been attacked by a magic user of some kind. What do they need to "figure out"? If you want to create headaches for yourself, go ahead. Like most people responding to this thread it's never been a big deal in any campaign I've ever...

Why would the patrol stick around and just poke at the hut so that they can be killed off? If they start a fight, the PCs don't get a long rest* but I see no reason they would go get reinforcements no matter what. I'm assuming the enemy is already on high alert because the characters have taken...

If they're in a place where the enemy doesn't find them, then it doesn't matter if they have a hut or not. If it does get discovered (and in most cases the characters have already been doing murder and mayhem) the reaction is going to be the same as if it was placed in the middle of the...

Based on what other people have said I would say that the majority of people responding to this thread don't see LTH as a major issue. So I'm hardly alone. I can't help it if you can't accept that or that antagonists may do something other than shrug and walk away if they notice a shimmering...