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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8596466" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yes.Not necessarily, is my point.  The players could just as easily have been the ones who messed up, by (for example) pushing on too far while weakened rather than bailing out for some rest; hence my posted example each way.Perhaps, though ideally it never got to this point in the first place: the DM, on seeing the mismatch on pre-reading the module, could (and probably should) have seen to it then.My own experience is that adventuring parties are incredibly resilient things, and that almost no matter what, some of them at least will find a way out of any situation.  Thus, unless it's a clear error by the author (as in the Werefolf example) I'll let it run and see what happens.To some extent I agree; though I'm anti-fudging I can admit there'd be rare occasions when it could be the lesser of perhaps-numerous evils.Doesn't square me with the "I fudge all the time" posters in here, though; and I still think the advice given in the 5e DMG is crap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>