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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9413537" data-attributes="member: 18">That's not what happens though.I'm going to be real, most DMs are dumbasses about how they use LR, in my experience (including podcasts lol). Like really not smart. Whereas if a smart DM who knows the rules and his players' capabilities very well, it can be a hugely annoying and frustrating thing that is highly effective but also just does not at all improve the game. I've been that DM, and regretted it. Yeah I was able to drag out a fight for like 2 rounds longer than otherwise because I held on to LR instead of blowing it on the first things I could, but I kind of wish I hadn't.If monsters had specific triggers for LR, and probably they could have more LR for this, and maybe what those triggers were for an individual monster were like 3 out of a list of 6 trigger per monster, chosen by the DM beforehand, I think could work really well.Like, each major monster or monster type would have a custom list of six, the DM decides on three of them when he adds the monster, and they work - and they have more than 3 charges between them. But this would mean it's less about adversarial DM skill, and more about just setting up a good confrontation.Like, if I want adversarial skill, 5E is absolutely NOT the right place to demonstrate it.</blockquote>