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Just came to say I ran more of the Cobblehook Cove adventure from Dragon Delves. The party has now had 4 encounters before they do the...

I wouldn’t focus so hard on class balance, honestly. Rather, I would put the emphasis on 6-8 medium encounters being what a typical...

All the time. In my experience players generally start to feel uneasy about their resources and start discussing leaving the dungeon or...

Dunno if it counts, but, Shattered Obelisk was certainly built around adventuring days. Each dungeon is about 6-8 encounters long...

Yeah, personally I think a big part of the problem here is the 1-hour short rest. They really should have been 10 minutes IMO. Having...

Oh, I know, trust me. But they have found that groups run so few encounters per day that many aren't taking short rests at all, which to...

In an adventuring day paradigm, the encounter isn’t the base point of balance. You don’t lose an encounter, you lose an adventuring day...

Yet they keep publishimg books with Dungeons with 6 or more fights...

Yes The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with not doing a full 6-8 encounters every day. 6-8 encounters is what a party of 4-5 can...

Short rests after every encounter are a very important part of how 4e is able to balance around individual encounters so effectively.

Strange, that’s the opposite of what I’ve heard; encounter design assumes the PCs don’t spend any resources, which is the same as...

It’s easier to balance encounters and make them easier or harder, yes. But other than running out of HP, how exactly does one lose in an...

Well, that’s based on orders, and I’d definitely be in the medium rare category there, despite preferring rare. When you’re ordering at...

I hadn’t heard that with steak before, but it makes a lot of sense to me; I know for example that it’s a thing with coffee. When asked...

It's been years since I saw the article, and I doubt I could find it again. But it was something to the effect of a test where they...