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<blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 9284457" data-attributes="member: 6921294">IME with creating encounters in 5E I never had much success using the rules as written to create challenging or balanced encounters. The way the section on encounter creation based on &quot;x&quot; number of encounters of varying difficulty per adventuring day always seemed that its written is in a way that tells you what to do, but not why. To me I believe that a paragraph explaining the design intent regarding creatures of low level still being a threat to higher level characters, the expected effectiveness of attacks and its effect on resource management could've gone a long way. I know myself as my players reached higher levels I fell back on older editions encounter design and just increased the encounter challenge rating.&nbsp;&nbsp; I agree and hopefully 5E 2024 at least addresses this even if it's very briefly. Some might say there's no need to as its baked into the rules, but there may be people such as myself that never realized this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="R_J_K75, post: 9284457, member: 6921294"] IME with creating encounters in 5E I never had much success using the rules as written to create challenging or balanced encounters. The way the section on encounter creation based on "x" number of encounters of varying difficulty per adventuring day always seemed that its written is in a way that tells you what to do, but not why. To me I believe that a paragraph explaining the design intent regarding creatures of low level still being a threat to higher level characters, the expected effectiveness of attacks and its effect on resource management could've gone a long way. I know myself as my players reached higher levels I fell back on older editions encounter design and just increased the encounter challenge rating. I agree and hopefully 5E 2024 at least addresses this even if it's very briefly. Some might say there's no need to as its baked into the rules, but there may be people such as myself that never realized this. [/QUOTE]

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