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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    That's literally all of D&D. The game is designed around attrition-based adventuring.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    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.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    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?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    Some much pointless frustration.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    Yep. Despite the DMG saying exactly that, people have been denying it for a decade.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    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.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    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).
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    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...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I think that sums up at least half the problems at any given table.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    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...
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    Spoilers Fantastic Four (Spoilers)

    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...
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    What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?

    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...
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    Fabula Ultima Hardback & Bestiary Vol. 1 Kickstarter

    Passed it. Don’t know when.
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    D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025)

    Maybe try again with it as a [+] thread.
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    Spoilers Fantastic Four (Spoilers)

    Finally got around to watching this. It wasn't bad. Not great. It felt really flat to me. It's the best official FF movie by a mile, but it's still miles behind The Incredibles. Most of the emotional stuff felt forced, not earned. The CGI in places looked really cheap, like on Reed's stretching...
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