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I run into it a lot in conversation. It's on several levels. The most basic is why is the 'average' what it is, then there's understandable confusion on generation of average PC hit points vs Monster Hit points.

I posted up a bit of a nerdy and complex breakdown of why die average numbers are what they are, since this seems to be a point of confusion that comes up now and again. The confusion seems to get more mixed when people apply it to rules or in generating player hit points vs monster hit points...

there should be. Even if a failure results in not saving the world, the campaign just shifts from a saving the world story, to a rescue and survival one. That's still a story.

Ah, that's interesting feedback. As the author I obviously knew what I meant but didn't get that across well. I meant it as you seem to as well. 'Never have less than'. They should always be able to move forward but they shouldn't be limited to that. I will say though, I do try to...

Nostalgia aint what it used to be.

I see what you did there.

I'm not really sure what that means. I doubt you mean the campaign ends but maybe? Failure can be an end to that strategy, but there has to be come place to go with the game.

Very true about the work on the part of the DM. I personally do the best I can but realize that many times I don't have a great idea and I try to move on until I do. It's always a balance between tools and opportunities.

Just made a new post about failure in 5e DnD inspired by a number of recent discussions I've seen on twitter recently about it. When Failure Isn't an Option in 5e

True, there are a number of surprised in there. Some of it shows what a waste of effort some of these resistances are.

I did some parsing of data from the 477 spells in 5e across the PHB, XGtE, and TCoE and aggregated some results I hope people will find interesting. It includes a breakdown of the count of spells by save types by class, damage type by class, and conditions inflicted by class. 5e Spell Save &...

I created some rules for mounted combat in 5e focused more on players. Where possible I tried to fit with existing rules like social interactions, sidekicks, etc. It works with the existing Mounted Combat rules as well as the rules from Arcadia #1 but have a player focus. Mounted Combat Rules...

This is great. Really this is the reason I even bothered with this post. To be able to adjust something, you have to have an understanding of it's basic behavior. I thought it was worth putting up so DMs didn't figure this out after the party shoots up to 15th level.

Ironically, it's not for why you'd think. I added up a few encounters from RIme. You'd level FASTER with experience than milestone.

Worse, it's pointless. I made this because I don't generally play at that level and many people don't but some might be interested and I think they'd be as surprised by this as I was so I thought I'd post it and hopefully help them plan better for high level play.

I don't know this is true though it's hard because this is an assumption. I haven't broken it down encounter by encounter, but in the few modules that go that high it seems like you're facing foes much higher CR than the party instead of more lower level foes.

I found that either difficult or not helpful for 2 main reasons: 1. If you look at official modules, it's pretty common to face a higher CR creature. Recently MUCH more common, so how do you pick a mid-point. 2. With the difficulty multiplier of multiple foes, it gets really fuzzy. This is...

Sure, one of the reasons I was like "What does this even mean?". I tired to stay away from a value judgement on it. I personally would have expected a regularly increasing difficulty. I guess by level 11 they're just like "Okay, lets get this over with"

I wrote a bit about the difficulties of leveling at different points along a characters lifetime in 5e. Not earth shattering but I was surprised to see that 11-19 was about HALF as hard to level as 10th level and this made me reconsider pacing in experience based games, or even expectations on...

I've had a number of players who wanted to collect items from interesting monsters, and who were interested in using that to craft potions. Since they found it fun, and it created active character hooks for them, I created a simple set of rules to engaging them with gathering materials and...