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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8423170" data-attributes="member: 7032025">And then, for sure, the probability, I agree. For sure, many encounters might lead to a death in the first round, but the probability being infinitesimally small also takes care of that.And then, it's only a game, meant to provide the players with fun. It's not some previous editions which were designed as "competitive" or the early ones with wizards with 1 hp and death at 0 hp.See, here, while 5e can be played that way, it has not been designed for this. If it is your intent, I understand you finding it hard, because like lots of games of the 21st century (in particular computer games), it's what you would call "easy mode".I understand you liking it, but because it's in the DNA of the game, the solution is going to take more than looking at the encounter computations.Threat of what ? Bad luck at dice ? Because that's a bit the source of the problem with making 5e more deadly. Death will come because of randomness, not because of "bad play" (I'm using quotation marks because I don't think that playing tactically badly is playing the game wrong) tactically speaking. That should have its own consequences, but it's another story.</blockquote>