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#encounter design

Blog posts tagged with encounter design

Your Wizard Never Runs Out of Spell Slots. That's Not a Compliment.

D&D's class balance assumes six to eight fights between long rests. Almost nobody runs that many. Here's what breaks when the attrition math never kicks in, and the one-line fix that brings it back.

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Your Boss Fight Isn't Going Sideways. It Just Doesn't Have an Exit.

Every boss fight can go wrong in two directions — dead in two rounds, or a TPK waiting to happen. Here's the pre-fight trick that fixes both without touching a die roll.

3 min read