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You can also play "regular" games in solo mode with things like the Mythic GM Emulator. Word Mill Games The YouTube channel Me, Myself, and Die! is pretty good for learning about solo gaming with Mythic specifically. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtiBzkVoYrugJkrpW7_75Ag

A stray adopted us and had a litter of murder muffins in our house. We're beyond full for cats already. Free to a good home. Should be ready to adopt around the first week of November. Too young to be fixed yet. All friendly and used to people. Some boys, some girls. Near Portland, OR...

I think that covers every problem at every table ever. Well done.

Pretty sure it's the board. If there were a dedicated 4E forum, the likelihood of people who hate 4E intentionally crashing every 4E thread would be quite low. As an example, the dedicated 4E discord doesn't have that problem. Note how several of those are [+] threads. That's likely key to...

I will never understand the people who treat game rules as holy writ.

“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes.” —Doctor Who

Sorry, but no. This is one of those clear examples of dumb rules that should not be blindly followed. Like surviving swimming in lava without magic and a person filling a 5-foot square.

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” —Captain G. M. Gilbert, after the Nuremberg trials. I can think of no better definition of evil. Should be an interesting watch. Not sure about Crowe as Göring.

Yeah. It’s always been a ridiculous read to say it takes 1 hour of combat to interrupt a long rest. Yet another thing the designers got wildly wrong. See the OP again.

Pointless.

It's also how Dave Arneson ran games. You end the session in a dungeon and you'd have to make a roll to see how your retreat went as you fled the dungeon.

Yes, exactly. Regardless of what they choose to do, continue or rest, they will inevitably face "random" encounters. It's disguising the inevitability of a random encounter with pointless rolls. The choice doesn't matter.

That’s probably Beau, Marisha’s monk.

I see Taliesin hasn't worked on his Irish accent since the start of C2.

Yeah, you might as well not bother. There's no real choice there as it's not a risk of an encounter, it's a guarantee. It's a quantum ogre with extra steps. Just roll 1d8 for which hour of the rest the encounter happens. After the first encounter, roll your 1d8 again and if they're still resting...

They're separate issues. How the designers assumed people would play and how people actually played. The design of 5E is largely a massive rejection of 4E design with several elements from 4E "hidden" in 5E's design. 4E was an encounter-based minis skirmish game. Lots of people loved it, more...

It’s only a real choice if there’s a chance they can successfully rest. Saying they have a chance but the chance really being zero means it’s not really a choice. It’s a quantum ogre. Alternately, the possible reward is so overwhelmingly great, i.e. a bog standard long rest, that they’ll simply...

Sure, but unless you’re presenting a false choice, there will be times they don’t face random encounters. Which bring back the problem.

It’s a compromise, to be sure. To me, it’s a question of which is easier to use. Decoupling rests from sleep or the house rules and forced pacing you’d need to fix the mess? I tried the house rules and forced pacing for a decade. I’ll gladly take a clock with 18 ticks over that. Absolutely...