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combat Encounters in the 2024 D and D
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rules are expected to be more difficult
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than they were in the 2014 rules players
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have been looking at the monster manual
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or who've been following content
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creators like me who've been talking
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about it have probably seen that
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individual monsters really haven't
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gotten any stronger CR really hasn't
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changed where things changed was the
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math for planning Encounters in the
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dungeon Masters Guide in the 2014 rules
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there were four difficulty steps easy
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medium difficult deadly now deadly was
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very frequently a passable challenge for
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many parties but not really as deadly as
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you might expect the way that encounters
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are scaled in difficulty is each
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encounter step has a fixed number of
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experience points adding monsters
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increases the value of that encounter
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and in 2014 there was a multiplier so
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adding multiple monsters multiplied how
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valuable those monsters were for
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planning difficulty in the 2024 rules
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there's no longer that multiplier which
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means multi enemy encounters are now
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expected to be much more common in
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addition the caps on the XP values for
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those encounters have changed so what
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was a difficult encounter in the 2014
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rules is now a medium encounter in the
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2024 rules and on top of that those caps
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have actually been raised slightly
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starting at level five so right from
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right from level one players are going
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to see more difficult encounters and at
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level five the difficult is going to
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increase faster deadly Encounters in the
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2014 rules are now less difficult than
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hard Encounters in the 2024 rules the
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expectation is no longer a party of four
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against a single Monster of CR equal to
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their level expect things to be more
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difficult expect to face more enemies
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per encounter expect to need to try a
