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Sure that's spellcaster enemies solve the problem. But that's the point. The 5MWD and Anticlimactic Boss fights are caused by the designers and a large death of the community wanting the setting to be mostly populated by no Spellcasters BUT allowing and expecting player parties to be 30%-75%...

I halve spell slots and do 3-5. Sleeping in a city, fort, or bastion with full amenities gives you full slots and lets you go to deep dungeons.

The core issue is for many monsters, they cannot realistically generate equal power as a fully rested party of adventurers to convert their Easy encounter to a Deadly encounter without setting help. And most settings don't. 3 goblins cannot find 50 goblins in 6 hours and bring them back in 2...

I think he was more saying how some classes assumed a offense or defense or utility buff at certain levels so when you were designing a subclass for those classes you had to create a subclass feature which matched that or it would stray to powerful or to weak in one of the elements in the game's...

Having 2 U to cast it meant you had to really dedicate to blue to do it early. I still think D&D could benefit from having lower cost counter spells that only work in specific situations like versus certain schools of magic or versus certain monster types. Countering conjuration spells or...

Which is funny because if I recall correctly counter spell was mostly shifted to the side and relegated to older formats and they made more fun versions of counterspells in MTG. I mean a ton of blast spells. But with 5e's flexible casting, there is lower preparation cost of more niche...

I think both Mikes are such big proponents of modular design that those who go listen to then will be as well But as a whole, 5e fans are mostly official or not. With the most popular nonofficial modules and houserules which ARENT while new games becoming official rules.

Kinda reminds me of the Noble - Grim, Bright-Dari setting alignments. To me: Dungeon TTRPGs are best as Grimbright, Strategy and Solo RPGs games are best at Nobledark.

One thing I've tried with is to put enemies in factions with their own logistics and organizations. It would determine how many losses they can replenish, what infrastructure they have access to, and how long it talks to bring in elites and special magic.. Like I have a thief guild with spy...

Personally if I were to able to redesign D&D, I'd "demote" Druid to a subclass of Cleric (replacing Nature Clerics) and make Ranger the standard bearer of nature, animal, plant, and elemental weapon magic. Wildshape would be placed in its own class. The only base class that would get nature...

I mean OD&D, the actual first version of D&D. D&D is weird were it was published then released a totally redesigned 1st edition after. My point was the Ranger is older than Druid so it needed to borrow wizard and cleric spells to get its effects as druid didn't exist yet.

The GMs aren't happy. The Players are happy... Until they hear of a table that has better boss fights or remember their video game boss fights. Blame Vidya games.

This thread wouldn't exist if a plurality were satisfied by the current paradigm of boss fights.

Especially since most worlds and settings have their enemies be a lot more primitive than the PCs. What can 5 random bandits do in 8 hours?

That's what 13 age did. Your lower slots disappear as you get access to higher slots You have to cast shield with 3rd level slots.

Lower amount of spell slots and daily resources

Because the boss fights aren't fun. It needs to be lowered because... exactly. 5e's NeoVanian magic and 5e's Rituals is more like double the available slots.

All this talk of pressure and rest alternatives because people refuse to have fewer spells per day.

Since people don't actually for the Skill with alternative abilities... An Endurance skill would be appreciated and high ranking.

The point was that you aren't expected to manage your resources from the time you leave down until the time you got back. Also not until later Diablos was mana and health regeneration fast enough to spam. You usually had a weak low mana spell/attack (equivalent to a cantrip) you'd use while you...