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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6810304" data-attributes="member: 6677017">I pretty much run my game like that overall. At this early stage in 5e (been running it since the beginning, but still not sure I've entirely pinned down the power balance between PCs vs. monsters) I tend to check how difficult an encounter will be, but eventually that will probably become a rare thing for me to do.My "starter dungeon" for the 1st-level PCs in my current game involves them waking up in a dungeon with no gear, and having to explore it to try to get gear and not die. They found pieces of wood to use as clubs (and there is a pen-knife and a crowbar also), and eventually miner's picks. Three party members have attack cantrips. No armor for anyone.They decided to go the direction that led right into the centipedes' lair (though they didn't know it), got green slime dropped on one of them, etc. Out of the total of 5 giant centipedes they fought, only one managed to hit before it went down, and the character made her save. So the dice have really been on their side. (One character got swarmed by a centipede swarm though, and may have a phobia now.) Failed saves vs giant centipede poison can be nasty on 1st-level characters.Hopefully things are a bit more hairy for them later on in this dungeon...</blockquote>