To borrow fromLethal Weapon’sRoger Murtaugh, I am both literally and figuratively getting too old for this shit. So, I think the real difference is to know when the stakes are low and you just hand a player a solution and move on; when you still want the players to do the work, bu...
Unfavorable Terrain for the PCs: Monsters are designed with the assumption that they are encountered in their favored terrain—encountering a water-breathing aboleth in an underwater area does not increase the CR for that encounter, even though none of the PCs breathe water. If, on the other...