You’re not wrong. The mass proliferation of listacles with the same 5 advertised products stamped behind a novella of filler to appease SEO algorithms has been increasingly problematic for at least 10 years now. The issue has only been compounded with the flood of “AI” generated content and deceptive ads. I almost prefer when every website had sidebars full of blatant advertisements. Sure they were ever present, but they weren’t trying to literally trick you into buying something.

It’s also a fantastic way to steal the superior ideas that your players have misremembered and to reinforce the ones that resonated with them.

I agree with you, but there have absolutely been games (specifically in Pathfinder 1E) that I had to approach from a mindset of trying to win. PCs can get so ridiculously overpowered in that game that it can be difficult to balance combat properly and sometimes requires you to pull out all the stops to make combat encounters engaging.

You convince anyone to take away my wireless earbuds and I’ll hunt you down.

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Lmao

Seriously though I love your ideas. This is what really frustrates me about high level play. At that point your enemies aren’t only powerful they tend to be incredibly intelligent. If you play your liches and dragons smart the party shouldn’t even stand a chance unless they are overwhelmingly powerful or happen to catch the enemy way off guard.

Or perhaps I’m just not clever enough to make that work lol.