D&D 5E D&D's official math...

[Scribe]

Monster math, and the way the prof bonus is baked into things, should be the relatively straightforward part.

Its always the PCs and their damage were it gets hairy. 5e seems to assume a lot of rounds of combat per day, to get PC damage to average out.

Not sure how this interfaces with the monster math, but it must!

I thought I saw a post somewhere, that the Monster damage, is related to encounters per day, and the PC Hit Points, not damage?

 

[TerraDave]

I thought I saw a post somewhere, that the Monster damage, is related to encounters per day, and the PC Hit Points, not damage?

But there will still be some link to monster HP and PC damage, or at least some implicit assumption.

 

[RoryB]

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One of the key features is how bounded accuracy shapes the game. With attack rolls and ACs designed to remain relatively stable across levels, it ensures that lower-level creatures can still pose a threat while higher-level characters don’t steamroll everything automatically.

 

[Weiley31]

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