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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrJawaPhD" data-source="post: 9293632" data-attributes="member: 7044770">I'm having major trouble interpreting the wording of the thread title vs the question in the poll.  Is 5e somehow easier than any other edition?  No absolutely not, you can easily run an impossibly brutal 5e adventure just as you can easily run a cakewalk adventure in 1e or 2e or any edition of any game out there. The question seems to actually want to be about whether modern/recent official adventures are easy, and YES they absolutely are ridiculously easy.  Modern adventures are balanced to be semi-challenging to brand new players who have never played DnD before and are still learning d8's from d20's.  This is a problem with the adventures but not a problem with 5th Edition itself.  You could switch the game rules back to 1e or Shadowdark or whatever you want, and WotC would still publish laughably easy adventures because they think that is what modern consumers want.In short, 5e difficulty is perfectly fine, but modern adventures should only be considered useful for the story, and will take work on the part of the DM to pump up the difficulty unless your players are literally brand new to DnD.</blockquote>