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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6573615" data-attributes="member: 205">So far, I've seen no evidence of the need to adjust hit points.  It's tuned fairly similarly to 4e, in that it seems to take about 4 hits from an equivalent level attacker to drop a PC, or 5 if they're a higher HP class and/or have a higher Con.  It certainly doesn't have the fairly low hitpoints of AD&D or the drastically escalating damage potential of 3e.Agreed, this is handled through ad-hoc negotiation and use of social skills when the DM deems relevant.  Guidance is slim.The DMG makes mention that the typical encounter day should range from 6-8 moderate difficulty encounters, with short rests 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through.   That actually seems balanced from the small level range (3rd-5th) I've played in, typical encounters only usually see the expenditure of 1-2 spell slots for each caster.  The concentration rules are a huge depowering of casters, and combining them with the relative short length of 5e combats does a solid job of making the neo-Vancian slots function more like a large pool of encounter powers.Agreed.  Yea, the best encounters in 5e are invariably ones with an outside element introduced beyond the mix of monsters.  That shares DNA with most other D&D versions outside of 4e and some more complex monsters in 3e (usually spellcasters).See above. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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