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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7833026" data-attributes="member: 996">There's a poll running here of &quot;top three best WotC adventures&quot; - I'm pretty sure ToD is coming in last.&nbsp; 5e is actually meant to be pretty easy after the first couple of levels.&nbsp; There's a number of factors that go into that, to make it more accessible to new players, for instance. But one that can easily cause issues is that 5e is calibrated around a long slog of an adventuring day.&nbsp; Your party should get a short rest maybe every-other encounter, and a long rest only after 6-8 encounters.&nbsp;&nbsp; That should force them to be careful with using spell resources, run them out of HD and low on hps, so that there is a challenge, either in terms of resource management throughout the day, or if they screw that up, in terms of not having much left to face the last encounter or few.&nbsp; Shorter days mean increasingly noticeable class imbalance, and encounters starting to seem laughably easy.&nbsp; You can, of course, crank up encounters well past deadly to cope with the latter, but it does tend to get into a spiral, you dial up encounters, the party gets tapped out, rests sooner, and before too long you've taught you players to throw everything they've got at every encounter, then rest ASAP - the infamous &quot;Five Minute Work Day.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7833026, member: 996"] There's a poll running here of "top three best WotC adventures" - I'm pretty sure ToD is coming in last. 5e is actually meant to be pretty easy after the first couple of levels. There's a number of factors that go into that, to make it more accessible to new players, for instance. But one that can easily cause issues is that 5e is calibrated around a long slog of an adventuring day. Your party should get a short rest maybe every-other encounter, and a long rest only after 6-8 encounters. That should force them to be careful with using spell resources, run them out of HD and low on hps, so that there is a challenge, either in terms of resource management throughout the day, or if they screw that up, in terms of not having much left to face the last encounter or few. Shorter days mean increasingly noticeable class imbalance, and encounters starting to seem laughably easy. You can, of course, crank up encounters well past deadly to cope with the latter, but it does tend to get into a spiral, you dial up encounters, the party gets tapped out, rests sooner, and before too long you've taught you players to throw everything they've got at every encounter, then rest ASAP - the infamous "Five Minute Work Day." [/QUOTE]

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