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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8618008" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Yes, they do,  it's nothing to do with bounded accuracy, it's just part of the "streamlining of the fights" of 5e to make combats quicker, while having "whack-a-mole" healing to take care of "accidents".See above, not only. But I agree that it's one of the difficulties of 5e, since they are streamlined the game so much to make it less complex, but also since there are fewer lingering effects (harder and longer to track across rounds, and also not necessarily fun), and fewer "positioning effects" (because these require a grid which is not the default option of 5e), 5e is actually almost completely HP=centric, and attacks and defenses are mostly around this.It certainly makes the monsters and the fights less interesting tactically, I completely agree, but as it makes it incredible faster, it's compensated by more variety in fights.Still, it makes monsters less interesting.This problem is not one of bounded accuracy, but of action economy, compounded by the "everything is about hit points" phenomenon above. It is "sort of" compensated by the increasing difficulty of encounters when encountering more monsters than there are adventurers, but if you offset the rather delicate balance of "4-5 PCs" vs "fewer monsters than PCs", you will have trouble balancing things so that the fight does not become one-sided.And this is where healing creeps back in through the side door, if you are also extending the fights through healing, it's even harder to make balanced.It's action economy more than anything else. Because there are very few "shut down" powers, it's really hard to compensate for the 4-5 actions per round of a standard party. This is supposed to be compensated by legendary actions, but people hesitate to use legendary monsters all over the place.This is way longer than most fights that we are having, which is not at all a problem for us as combat is really the pillar that we like to spend less time on, but I wonder how you make it that balanced to last that long.</blockquote>

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