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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 6836257" data-attributes="member: 93631">This topic has come up a lot and I don't have a new opinion to share, except this: The notion that 5e is so precisely balanced that it will &quot;break&quot; without 6-8 encounters per day -- regardless of factors such as campaign style, player skill, party composition and enemy capabilities relative to party strengths and weaknesses -- is pretty funny. It's a guideline -- a rough guideline of dubious utility, in my opinion -- and both the DM and players will still have to make judgments about how much fighting they can handle in a given day. Same as it ever was. The factors unique to each table that the encounter-building guidelines necessarily ignore will outweigh whatever abstract &quot;balance&quot; there is between the classes.Play the game. If it's not flowing the way you want it to, given specific characters doing specific things at your specific table, make adjustments and keep playing. If it is flowing the way you want it to, you're doing it right regardless of how many encounters you average per long rest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 6836257, member: 93631"] This topic has come up a lot and I don't have a new opinion to share, except this: The notion that 5e is so precisely balanced that it will "break" without 6-8 encounters per day -- regardless of factors such as campaign style, player skill, party composition and enemy capabilities relative to party strengths and weaknesses -- is pretty funny. It's a guideline -- a rough guideline of dubious utility, in my opinion -- and both the DM and players will still have to make judgments about how much fighting they can handle in a given day. Same as it ever was. The factors unique to each table that the encounter-building guidelines necessarily ignore will outweigh whatever abstract "balance" there is between the classes. Play the game. If it's not flowing the way you want it to, given specific characters doing specific things at your specific table, make adjustments and keep playing. If it is flowing the way you want it to, you're doing it right regardless of how many encounters you average per long rest. [/QUOTE]

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