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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 7995704" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>Maybe I am used to ruthless DMing. Even in 5E no healing was not going to work. We heard people running 5E with no healers, but were surprised. In general, I play monsters to kill the party. That means leveraging every ability whether mobility, lair actions, or legendary actions to take the party out while limiting the party's ability to attack. If a creature has flying, it is moving around taking cover, keeping it's distance, and blasting one character over and over again until they are dead unless he does AoE damage to spread around.</p><p></p><p>I do play with another DM who plays a lot softer than I do. We got away with far less healing at times, though even with him we had a few nasty fights in 5E that hammered us pretty good, mostly with a flight of dragons lighting us up with breath weapons. Then again that was our first campaign. After we learned all the ways to maximize our power in 5E, we cake-walked in future campaigns he DMed. And Archery is sick in 5E with Sharpshooter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 7995704, member: 5834"] Maybe I am used to ruthless DMing. Even in 5E no healing was not going to work. We heard people running 5E with no healers, but were surprised. In general, I play monsters to kill the party. That means leveraging every ability whether mobility, lair actions, or legendary actions to take the party out while limiting the party's ability to attack. If a creature has flying, it is moving around taking cover, keeping it's distance, and blasting one character over and over again until they are dead unless he does AoE damage to spread around. I do play with another DM who plays a lot softer than I do. We got away with far less healing at times, though even with him we had a few nasty fights in 5E that hammered us pretty good, mostly with a flight of dragons lighting us up with breath weapons. Then again that was our first campaign. After we learned all the ways to maximize our power in 5E, we cake-walked in future campaigns he DMed. And Archery is sick in 5E with Sharpshooter. [/QUOTE]
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