Using 4E to Make 5E Combat More Fun | Running the Game
Why Role-playing Games Stack Exchange recommends it
Role-playing Games Stack Exchange users link it when asking how to make 5E combat harder or more interesting, and as an example of how the community talks about game editions.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2017 to 2020.
What it is
Episode 27 of Matthew Colville's 'Running the Game' series, a nearly hour-long talk on borrowing ideas from D&D 4th Edition to make 5th Edition combat more engaging. He covers techniques like minions, monster roles and multiple saves, aimed at game masters running 5E.
What people said
Recommends John · 2018-12 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “Do 5th-edition D&D PCs consistently outmatch level-appropriate encounters?”
This series by Matthew Colville has some great ideas for making combat more difficult or engaging. things like adding minions, higher saving throws that give multiple saves instead. [this video]
Recommends Quadratic Wizard · 2020-09 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “How do I pronounce numbers in game editions?”
As "Five-E", or "fifth edition" As far as I can tell, abbreviations like "4e" and "5e" are unofficial community abbreviations for use in text, and there is no official canonical pronunciation defined in the books. These abbreviations are almost never used in D&D sourcebooks. However, we can use online sources to get a good sense of what pronunciations are most common in the D&D community. YouTube videos are a good source of information on how words are pronounced. In my experience, among native English speakers talking about Dungeons & Dragons in particular, "3e", "4e" and "5e" are written abbreviations for what is pronounced "third edition", "fourth edition", and "fifth edition", respective
Cites Taw · 2017-04 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “Continue using low-CR monsters in encounters as players gain levels?”
Low CR monsters pose a significant threat, even to higher-level PCs. Due to the nature of bounded accuracy [LINK] in DnD 5e, high-level PCs are unlikely to be invulnerable to the attacks of any monster no matter the CR. In fact, an encounter with a larger number of lower CR creatures will be more dangerous than an encounter with a smaller number of higher CR creatures even if the two encounters have the same properly calculated encounter CR (as described in the DMG pg 81, "Creating a Combat ENcounter). Given many attacks against a player, attacks will certainly get through. Every round these creatures stay alive is that many more chances for more attacks to get through. It doesn't take many