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I mean, there is the animated series...

I for one was enjoying the bit.

So given that, what would you suggest in order to give this player what they want -- a reason not to nova every fight?

I feel like Magic has the advantage of not having to produce a big tome of lore and rules to introduce their new worlds. They obviously create a lot of evocative art, and they of course do the game design in the cards, but that still leaves a lot of "white space" in the settings. Regardless of...

This is mostly musing and hoping for pleasant conversation and light debate. I really like the broad food based analogy* for RPGs. Like all analogies, it isn't perfect, but I think it hits pretty well overall. GMing IS, in fact, a lot like cooking -- and that means GMs range from "toss it in...

We are about due for a Lord of the Rings reboot -- which I don't want (although I would absolutely rush out to see delToro's Hobbit adaptation if it got made).

In general I don't think they do -- but it would be nice if they did. One thing I have found specifically about many 5E era Kickstarters is we often don't know much about who is making the thing, and a lot of them feel very fly by night or at least more hoping for a windfall than loving D&D. As...

If I was forced to choose, I would definitely take a big fat Eberron adventure anthology over a new setting.

At the very least, it helps the kind of player who can't remember what to roll and how. Just push the button, Kevin.

As I asked before, how does limiting it to only Hard encounters affect that number, if at all? Obviously, most people don't run high level games, so I am probably wishing in the wind here.

One of these days I should pick up both Ravnica -- about which I know nothing other than I think it is a world city? -- and Theros -- because I love Greek inspired stuff and I understand that it has "mythic" rules for monsters. I don't explicitly dilike M:tG or its worlds, I just want something...

Thanks. As a reminder, I am looking for help figuring out the actual design part: how many creatures, what CR, how many encounters, etc.

As I said, I have been running mostly big set pieces where the party can just let loose. But a player has explicitly asked for more attrition based design. Hence why I am asking.

To be clear, I love it when it happens, but it does not happen that often. I was convinced by the previews (especially the art in the MM) to buy D&D 5E 2024 and I wish I had not fallen for it. But even so, I would still buy a new (not MtG) full setting for 5E from WotC if it looked like...

Tell that to the hot dog fundamentalists.

What if they are all hard+?

Heresy. Pizza is a flat taco.

As a GenXer rather than millenial, I can't say HP means much to me, personally. But I understand its popularity, and I feel bad for those torn between their love of a formative series and their desire not to support its creator. Every generation has some of that. I am sure there are ways to...