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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6670692" data-attributes="member: 996">Yes, in any edition, it's just up to the DM to evoke the right feel. Simply don't design tailored-to-1st-level encounters, at all.  You'll get high PC mortality until enough PCs have made it out of Apprentice tier to carry the rest of the party. Make the story milestone "found the treasure!"You can, and could always, RP as much or as little as you liked.  Inspiration (not Bardic Inspiration) is, indeed, at odds with the rest of 5e, being a more touchie-feelie-indie mechanic, so you can just not use it. Not seeing the problem.  Even an hour-long rest is probably impractical with wondering monster checks every old-school-10min-turn. That's OK as a hypothetical, but practically speaking, if the mega-dungeon is the traditional wandering-monster interstate, there's an excellent chance something's going  to screw with the party, and 'resting' is going to be done outside the dungeon, if not all the way back in the nearest comparatively 'safe' inn or town.  Heck, a wandering purple worm might just eat their little closet whole. HP attrition is still a real thing, it's just not all the hps are on the table until you've burned through the party's HD - assuming they can even successfully access them.  A mega-dungeon is way more than a party can tackle in a 'day,' anyway, so if more hps and the occasional 'short' rest let them tackle a few more encounters a day, and they finish the dungeon in three fortnights instead of two months, does it really matter?  24 hrs is no small amount of time, and it's two long rests to /fully/ restore, including getting back all your HD, if that's important (it may not be if 'short' hour-long union lunchbreaks are unavailable in the mega-dungeon).  There's also the little question of how far it is from the dungeon to a safe resting place, and what random encounters are like out there... These kinda take care of eachother.  You don't /need/ so much cannon fodder because PCs have a little more durability.  Still, while 5e may de-emphasize henchmen & hirelings, it's mechanics make having more warm bodies on your side a good thing, since Bounded Accuracy means they generally have some chance to contribute whenever combat or checks are called for. Not entirely, and there's no reason you can't create them.  The save mechanic is there, when you design, say, a trap that forces a save, assign the consequence you want to a failed save.  If you want it to be 'death,' it is. First, get used to the idea that '5th RAW' is an oxymoron.  As the DM, 5e's rules are yours to play with, not play by.  Even if you have no formal 'house rules,' 5e leaves you plenty of latitude to make rulings on the fly, including rulings notwithstanding the letter of the rules.</blockquote>

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