D&D 5E (2014) Encounter Building math: or I killed 2 PCs last night.

[The_Gneech]

That was probably the most epic low-level fight I've ever witnessed.

It sounds it! Well done!

-TG

 

[Halivar]

Last night we were doing a little old school dungeon crawl as I got to run a game but didn't have anything prepared.
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They expended ALL their resourced, and the cleric and paladin died. Cleric fell to a 1 on a death save. Wow that was unexpected, to go from, we'll get you up next round, to, dead.

Seems to me like you did "old school dungeon crawl" right!

EDIT: I think 5E is turning me into a homicidal RBDM. I'm making "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" my new theme song.