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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 6491979" data-attributes="member: 61501">Indeed though I have always previously played D&D with minis & a map - probably because I started with a wargames club in the (very late) 70s. I have played Feng Shui a whole lot exclusively TotM & things like exact movement speed become far less important than when you are counting squares; similarly other precise positioning tricks. In that game cool stunts are done because they are cool not because they are effective yet oddly I find excessive attack description in D&D tiresome.Forced movement effects are about my favourite thing about 4e combat & they are just not as interesting in TotM - I am a super lax generous DM regarding this stuff too. When I got 13th Age I was disappointed by the random numbers that AOE spells effected but in TOTM it's usually me, the DM, arbitrarily designating numbers of targets so it might as well be random. I am glad the wizard in the party is an evoker so he can ignore friendly fire to a large extent which reduces that ruling. Anyway I am now a bit lost as to my point since I am really enjoying the 5e game I run (on google hangout sans maps) & dread the map drawing that other DMS in Adventurers League play use - if a fight takes 10 minutes I really do not want to spend 15 minutes watching a map get drawn.In Feng Shui cool stunts are done because they are cool not because they are effective yet oddly I find excessive attack description in D&D tiresome.What happened to 5e can suit any playstyle?*Anyway I have been running Lost Mines of Phandelver & I think the only situations where you might get into 6 or more fights in one day are Cragmaw Castle & The Mines themselves. (without lots of random encounters to "fix" it - massively in excess of the number the module would generate) I think my part may have done all of the Castle in one day but I think that was only 5? encounters - they combined some, avoided some & the rogue soloed a bit.The Mines included a long rest so probably two days of 3 or 4 encounters.It is not me not following the guidelines it's the module designers & those damned players doing what they want willy nilly.*I suspect I have subconciously moved to a style with fewer more dangerous encounters, which will work about the same as 6-8 easier ones. Get up, fight a couple of terrible villains. Spot of lunch, fight another more. Drop of tea then one more monster before supper & bedtime.</blockquote>

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