5e DMG leads to gaming dmg

I love my Christmas presents! Let's see, how about start reading the brand new 5E DMG - I heard that they tried to harken back to the good ol' days!



flip, flip, flip.......



Random Encounter Challenge

Random encounters need not be level-appropriate for the adventurers,



Ok, with you so far...



but it's considered bad form to slaughter a party using a random encounter



Huh, but isn't that the fun or random encounters....?!



since most players consider this ending to be and unsatisfying one.


Sigh. Sorry, I really wanted to get behind this edition, but mixing "bad form", "slaughter", and "unsatisfactory" in the same sentence makes me realize that I drank too much of the Kool-Aid.

5e DMG leads to gaming dmg