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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7924260" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I always have a chat with my players during our session 0 about how deadly they want the campaign to be and adjust appropriately.  Every once in a while I'll double check and get feedback on the topic.  If they want deadly I'll target the healers once the monsters know who they are and double tap etc.I find 5E as deadly as I want it to be out of the box.  In older editions we probably did a lot of homebrew stuff to make it less deadly.  I always hated save or die spells back in the day, so I avoided those monsters.  In 4E I removed several save or suck options from both monsters and PCs.  In older editions we also took a lot of multi-day rests so that the cleric could heal us all or had carts full of healing potions.I'm sure different groups had different experiences.</blockquote>