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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9500232" data-attributes="member: 7033171">Thats true, but I can imagine it might affect encounter difficulty for a lot of tables anyway. Most DMs I'd argue don't think in difficulty ranges, but just target the number that is listed in the DMG. The 2024 guidelines seem to expect to use most of your budget, so to get close to the high ceiling, while the 2014 guidelines seem to just care about the threshold/floor. A 2014 DM wanting to build an easy level 1 encounter will target 100 XP, a 2024 DM trying to do the same will target 200XP (minus "a few unspent XP left over") resulting in a more difficult encounter.Ofc we will only know that for sure if we have the new MM. All that XP math comparison is worthless if they changed how much you get for your mone--XP in a monster.</blockquote>