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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9713033" data-attributes="member: 11760">I ran a bunch of one-shots before the full book was even out. In those games, characters died. They let their torches go out in battle (oops!), they spam-cast their spells until they were on empty when the door opened to reveal a swarm of skeletons (oops!) and so on.I'm now running a sandbox campaign and no one's dying. They scout, they gather intel, they keep lines of escape open, they always have torches, etc.I think there probably is, for many groups, a brief period of lethality before everyone -- including the DM -- adjusts a bit. If you are fighting everything you see, you're both ignoring the reaction and morale rules, but you're also playing based on 5E assumptions.The first time my group saw a group of probable enemies -- pale deep goblins, looking at them from across a cavern -- and both sides backed away from the fight, it felt like something clicked into place for us.I think either a level below or at the same level with zero XP are both fine, but it's really a matter of taste.</blockquote>