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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9746226" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I don't think they will often result in a TPK unless the DM is purposely trying to kill a party.You say it can easily result in a TPK, how many of those have you seen in play and more importantly how many that you saw were due to a custom monster more powerful than the DM thought and not one of the other things I mentioned?I can say in well over 1000 sessions I have never seen a TPK in play in 5E because the DM made an overtuned custom monsterWe are not talking about encounter creation, but rather monster creation.  Those are two different things and we are presuming that said DM does understand how to create encounters of the appropriate difficulty if the monsters are appropriately speced.</blockquote>