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<blockquote data-quote="robus" data-source="post: 7290811" data-attributes="member: 6801558">I do think this is something a novice DM like myself has encountered. The published adventures encourage you to assume that the encounters will work as designed if your PCs are at the right level. Heck this is why we buy them!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But experience is saying, no, don’t trust the encounter math in the adventures (however it would be super helpful if the adventures indicated whether the combat encounter was supposed to be easy, medium, hard or deadly...).In fact it might be better for the adventures to not tell you how many creatures are in the encounter, just that there are giant spiders (or whatever) and the encounter is supposed to be hard (or whatever) and encourage the DM to figure out what that means for their table...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robus, post: 7290811, member: 6801558"] I do think this is something a novice DM like myself has encountered. The published adventures encourage you to assume that the encounters will work as designed if your PCs are at the right level. Heck this is why we buy them!! :) But experience is saying, no, don’t trust the encounter math in the adventures (however it would be super helpful if the adventures indicated whether the combat encounter was supposed to be easy, medium, hard or deadly...). In fact it might be better for the adventures to not tell you how many creatures are in the encounter, just that there are giant spiders (or whatever) and the encounter is supposed to be hard (or whatever) and encourage the DM to figure out what that means for their table... [/QUOTE]

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