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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 9435289" data-attributes="member: 55680">Yup this is the single biggest issue with 5e: it's a pain in the ass to run a traditional dungeon crawl with 5e and 5.5e does sweet naughty word-all to fix this.Unless you have a long and focused session (and mine have plenty of pizza munching and side chatter and I wouldn't have it any other way since it's my chance to meet my friends) one session is simply not enough time to attrit down a 5e party.That means you either have to have very truncated expeditions to the dungeon or you have to break up a single delve among multiple sessions.And that means you either have the exact same people showing up for every session (ha!) or you get fresh PCs popping up mid-dungeon crawl which throws everything off.And then tracking resource expenditure between sessions is hardly impossible but it's a pain logistically to get everyone back in the saddle and remembering how many spell slots they used last session when it's just easier to wipe the slate clean with a long rest.At the end of the day I think the way a lot of people play 5e just doesn't fit the rules all that well. It reminds me of the 90's when a lot of people (including me) were trying to hammer rules that are much better suited for swords and sorcery/Dying Earth into Epic Fantasy campaigns in a way that TSR-D&D rules just weren't that good at supporting.</blockquote>