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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8403125" data-attributes="member: 6855114">I don't really follow the DMG for the rules but I still keep in mind the intent. After 41 years of playing I think I get it right and my players seems to think so too. It is all a matter of pacing, prep and improvisation.  The balance between too easy and too deadly can be hard to achieve for a novice that is why I am often asked by younger DM in our Friday night Dungeons about how I plan things out. And as you said, it is surprising to see the amount of people that limit their reading (if any) of the DMG to magic items and optional rules chapters (and even that one is often skipped). One young DM even asked me where I had taken the death domain and the oath breaker paladin... I have had to show him the both of them in the DMG for him to believe me. So yeah, a bit more reading would help a lot.</blockquote>