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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9780365" data-attributes="member: 42582">I did this occasionally in 4e D&amp;D - eg when the PCs fought Torog,I haven't dug out my notes to see what level of encounter I treated this as - I suspect level 30, given the expected contribution of the escalation die.I assume similar sorts of approximations can be used in 5e?That's not my experience. 4e D&amp;D encounter design was great! And classic D&amp;D tends to have fairly robust rules for correlating &quot;number encountered&quot; to the dungeon level.I can't answer your last question. But as far as how the GM is meant to push the players, my answer - in a game where it is the role of the GM rather than the players to manage pacing and scene-framing - is by pushing the players. Don't relax the pressure. The post I linked to just upthread provides an example; here's another one, from the immediately subsequent session: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/doppelganger-mayhem-with-a-long-lead-up.319889/" target="_blank">Doppelganger mayhem (with a long lead up)</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9780365, member: 42582"] I did this occasionally in 4e D&D - eg when the PCs fought Torog, I haven't dug out my notes to see what level of encounter I treated this as - I suspect level 30, given the expected contribution of the escalation die. I assume similar sorts of approximations can be used in 5e? That's not my experience. 4e D&D encounter design was great! And classic D&D tends to have fairly robust rules for correlating "number encountered" to the dungeon level. I can't answer your last question. But as far as how the GM is meant to push the players, my answer - in a game where it is the role of the GM rather than the players to manage pacing and scene-framing - is [I]by pushing the players[/I]. Don't relax the pressure. The post I linked to just upthread provides an example; here's another one, from the immediately subsequent session: [URL="https://www.enworld.org/threads/doppelganger-mayhem-with-a-long-lead-up.319889/"]Doppelganger mayhem (with a long lead up)[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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