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<blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 6842023" data-attributes="member: 40233">I've only rarely had 6-8 encounter days.&nbsp; I think a good component is that I've found that 3-4 hard encounters, one of which is heavily roleplaying, makes for a better 3 to 4 hour adventure, than a 6 to 8 medium intensity fights that gradually ramp up in difficulty because&nbsp; the party has fewer and fewer resources to bring to bear.That's another problem.&nbsp; D&amp;D combat, absent options to choose from, is really boring.&nbsp; Casting cantrip after cantrip, making your standard attack round after round, because you don't have any more leveled spells, or your action surge has already been used in the previous encounter and you don't have anything to do in this one, isn't a tense, nailbiting experience, it's just a boring one.That's why I finally just made short rests last 15 minutes and went back to the 4e assumption that they occur after every encounter.&nbsp; If people were playing short rest heavy classes I'd have to look a adjusting their numbers, but as the party currently consists of mostly daily dependent classes, it means they almost always have something fun to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Salamandyr, post: 6842023, member: 40233"] I've only rarely had 6-8 encounter days. I think a good component is that I've found that 3-4 hard encounters, one of which is heavily roleplaying, makes for a better 3 to 4 hour adventure, than a 6 to 8 medium intensity fights that gradually ramp up in difficulty because the party has fewer and fewer resources to bring to bear. That's another problem. D&D combat, absent options to choose from, is [I]really boring[/I]. Casting cantrip after cantrip, making your standard attack round after round, because you don't have any more leveled spells, or your action surge has already been used in the previous encounter and you don't have anything to do in this one, isn't a tense, nailbiting experience, it's just a boring one. That's why I finally just made short rests last 15 minutes and went back to the 4e assumption that they occur after every encounter. If people were playing short rest heavy classes I'd have to look a adjusting their numbers, but as the party currently consists of mostly daily dependent classes, it means they almost always have something fun to do. [/QUOTE]

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