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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5503049" data-attributes="member: 2011">With the increase in monster damage last year, I've noticed a trend back towards the &quot;15 minute adventuring day&quot;.Our PCs got so efficient that we would probably average about 7 encounters (give or take depending on how difficult they were) because each PC was averaging approximately 1 healing surge per encounter. If a given PC, even a Defender was running low on healing surges, we would rotate that PC further back in the group for an encounter or two (alternatively, one could use Comrade's Succor, but our group only recently started doing that).Now, our group averages about 4 encounters per day. There are usually three PCs that use up 2 to 4 healing surges each either during the encounter, or during short rests afterwards (the Leader and Controller in our group tend to hang back, so that doesn't happen as often for them). It's possible that our DM is also throwing more difficult encounters at us in order to challenge us, but the extra and more consistent damage of the NPCs is also taking its toll.What are other people's recent experiences with this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5503049, member: 2011"] With the increase in monster damage last year, I've noticed a trend back towards the "15 minute adventuring day". Our PCs got so efficient that we would probably average about 7 encounters (give or take depending on how difficult they were) because each PC was averaging approximately 1 healing surge per encounter. If a given PC, even a Defender was running low on healing surges, we would rotate that PC further back in the group for an encounter or two (alternatively, one could use Comrade's Succor, but our group only recently started doing that). Now, our group averages about 4 encounters per day. There are usually three PCs that use up 2 to 4 healing surges each either during the encounter, or during short rests afterwards (the Leader and Controller in our group tend to hang back, so that doesn't happen as often for them). It's possible that our DM is also throwing more difficult encounters at us in order to challenge us, but the extra and more consistent damage of the NPCs is also taking its toll. What are other people's recent experiences with this? [/QUOTE]

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