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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7925488" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Well, we simply disagree.You have no idea how our players play, what our characters are like, or anything g else. If your experience differs, fine, but I stand by my statement that 5E is the easiest and least deadly D&D (disregarding 4th, which I never played) IME, especially when using the guidelines in the DMG. Others have agreed 5E is the least-challenging in the aspect of survival (especially past tier I), so I am hardly alone in that assessment.To give you an example, our party of 5 10-12th level characters, had these encounters in our session yesterday:2 Frost Giants (DIFFICULT)1 Frost Giant (EASY)2 Young Adult White Dragons (EASY)1 Frost Giant (EASY)1 Cloud Giant, 1 Oni, 4 Ogres (DEADLY)8 Ogres (MODERATE)3 Frost Giants (DEADLY)2 Fire Giants, 4 Ogres (DIFFICULT)SHORT REST1 Drow Wizard, 1 Drow Elite Warrior (EASY)2 Cloud Giants, 2 Winter Wolves (DEADLY)3 Frost Giants (DEADLY)LONG REST (end of session)In summary: 4 EASY, 1 MODERATE, 2 DIFFICULT, 4 DEADLY. If you do any XP tally we earned a bit more than what the calculated 4 moderate + 4 difficult (max of the 6-8 recommended) would give.While the deadly encounters most certainly had their exciting moments and a couple characters dropped to 0 HP in different fights, we were able to finish the battles and no one died, despite 4 "deadly" encounters before we got a long rest. In other words, the game played pretty much as designed IMO and I would day we had a lot of fun and excitement. Was I ever really concerned when those character went unconscious? Nope, be we had the upper hand at those points and saving them was easy enough. Now, if you play with a hard-ass DM who has monsters target fallen characters (which ours does at times depending on the monster and encounter), THAT makes the game more challenging. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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