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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8193398" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Anti-dark mode for me. I like to be able to distinguish between the posts and the background... having it all blend together is just annoying to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />In general, I do favor dark modes, just not EnWorld's implementation.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> But back to the thread's purpose...I don't think AD&D suffered as much from this because stakes were typically higher. Level drain and other save or suck features made powerful BBEG's/ solos scarier.Also, IME, PCs didn't deal as much damage per round comparatively to monster HP. YMMV of course.As I mentioned before, giving max HP and/or having them deal max damage are good starting points I've been using in 5E for quite a while and it definitely makes a difference. To offset a bad initiative roll, you could have them go on 20 always or even 15, or even give them advantage on the roll so a really low roll is possible (if you want it) but unlikely.In our 1-20 level game, we faced an Ancient Silver Dracolich in Hell as we were trying to escape and I know the DM did the max HP rule only and it made it so the Dracolich survived for longer and thank the gods it never recharged its breath because a second blast would probably have led to a TPK at that point.Which is another fix you could do. Recharge abilities could have the chance increase each round. So a dragon's breath (recharge 5-6) would become 4-6, then 3-6, etc. until it automatically would recharge at 1-6. Actually, I like rather that rule for all recharging features and will probably implement it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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