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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9751319" data-attributes="member: 23751">You are emphasizing the wrong portion of that sentence, taking it out of context.&quot;The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that you can spend on monsters.&quot;You don't have to use those as your budget.&nbsp; You can, but it's not required.&nbsp; And here's another one that you avoided in order to cherry pick the first one.&quot;BUILDING ENCOUNTERS ON A BUDGETYou can build an encounter if you know its desired difficulty.&quot;Again, can build. Not required to build.&nbsp; The whole budget thing is optional and up to the DM to use, and if he does, how much he actually wants to budget.&nbsp; He CAN follow the guidelines, or he CAN put in any other number he wants.&nbsp;Both of those are in a section on building encounters on a budget.&nbsp; But you can also build encounters while not on a budget, in which case you don't use that optional section.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9751319, member: 23751"] You are emphasizing the wrong portion of that sentence, taking it out of context. "The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that [B]you can spend[/B] on monsters." You don't have to use those as your budget. You can, but it's not required. And here's another one that you avoided in order to cherry pick the first one. "BUILDING ENCOUNTERS ON A BUDGET [B]You can build[/B] an encounter if you know its desired difficulty." Again, can build. Not required to build. The whole budget thing is optional and up to the DM to use, and if he does, how much he actually wants to budget. He CAN follow the guidelines, or he CAN put in any other number he wants. Both of those are in a section on building encounters on a budget. But you can also build encounters while not on a budget, in which case you don't use that optional section. [/QUOTE]

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