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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9751314" data-attributes="member: 23751">Your budget is what you the DM make it in 5e.  If you budget 5000xp, then you have 5000xp.  If you budget 15,000xp for the encounter, then your budget is 15,000.  The threshold chart in the 5e DMG doesn't limit what you are able to budget.What's more,  you are the DM.  If you budget that 5500xp and find a great encounter at 6100xp, there's nothing in RAW that prevents you from making that your new budget. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Those guidelines and norms use threshold, which automatically means that the numbers on the chart can be exceeded.  That's what a threshold is.</blockquote>