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Re:Dungeon Magazine by Jtsummers on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:16PM (#25781877)
People do ignore encumbrance/exhaustion a lot, kind of annoys me when I have to remind my players: You can't carry a battle axe, longsword, longbow, crossbow, two fishing nets, and a boulder. I don't care that you have 18 strength and it's technically something you can lift, it makes no sense to be able to run with all of that, let alone expecting to keep up with unencumbered opponent.

But this is one of the great things of this hobby:

1. There are thousands of systems to select from.

2. No one forces you to play it RAW.

3. If you do want RAW, you can probably find a system that works for you.

The most important parts are: what's fun and conveys the sense you want for the game; agreeing on the rules (either RAW or house) with some consistency (What do you mean I can't jump down 10'? You let him jump off a 50' cliff without getting hurt just last week!).

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Re:Dungeon Magazine by dragonwriter on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:22PM (#25781961)
Yeah, and I have no problem with people using what they want and ignoring what they want at their tables. I just think that a lot of the people who complain that 5e boosts PC power more than they like are underusing new core features and options that counter that effect, and in the core exhaustion seems to be a common piece that gets overlooked or underused (avoiding encumbrance has been common, AFAICT, from the earliest days of D&D, and I don’t think 5e substantially alters the impact of ignoring that.)
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