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In a decade of playing 5E I've literally never had a combat go that fast.

The enormous influx of new players Critical Role and Stranger Things brought to 5E. I remember. I was not one of them. I pushed for freeform skills and other wild departures. It got far more eyes than it otherwise would have because of Critical Role and Stranger Things. But people quite...

That's literally all of D&D. The game is designed around attrition-based adventuring.

That's because it was designed as a dungeon crawler. Because it had to cover that aspect of play that people would certainly use. That the vast majority don't play that way apparently never occurred to the designers of the game.

The next obvious question is: would 5E be as wildly popular if the majority of referees got this right? That is to say, if 5E wasn't played as an alpha-strike cakewalk by the majority of tables, would it have become as popular as it is?

Some much pointless frustration.

Yep. Despite the DMG saying exactly that, people have been denying it for a decade.

Mearls. "It's quite likely that a semi-optimized party can vaporize boss monsters in a round or even less." LOL. Referees been saying that about 5E for a damn decade. But nope, it's a perfectly balanced game. To say nothing of players optimizing to the Nth. Ugh.

He explains it in the thread. It means alpha strike vs at-wills. That is how the players play the game (alpha) vs how the designers assumed the players would play the game (at-will).

It would be simple to do so. Treat the game like a game. Stop worrying about verisimilitude. Rest Update: You cannot take a long rest until you've had ~20 rounds of combat. Done. It's kinda hilarious though. Such obvious things as "rest as often as possible" and "hit fast and hard" were...

I think that sums up at least half the problems at any given table.

A lot of people skip words when they speak or write. It’s okay. We all do it. But if those skipped words are the key to understanding the whole, you’ve failed at clearly communicating. Part of being an editor is pointing out when words are skipped, rendering the communication unintelligible...

When I compare the two, there's no "demoting" going on. If anything, The Incredibles sets an impossibly high bar that no official Fantastic Four movie has come even remotely close to approaching. I don't think The Incredibles is a knock-off FF. I think it's very clearly a love letter to the FF...

Rowan Atkinson played Doctor Who for a Red Nose Day special, Curse of Fatal Death. Rowan Atkinson played Blackadder with a constant companion, Baldric. Rowan Atkinson played the amazing Mr Bean. This is all one character. The Doctor. Mr Bean is his regeneration madness. Blackadder is...

Passed it. Don’t know when.