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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6847377" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Also, if youre using the 6-8/2 standard AD as your default, youre not going to be sticking to 6-8/2 for more than around 50 percent of your planned AD's.In other words, while a fair few of your PCs AD's are going to be 6-8ish encounters long if youre sticking to the guidelines, and will feature around 2 short rests, a fair few AD's are going to be shorter AD's (1-3 encounters only) such as wilderness trecks where anything more than a single encounter or two at max is a stretch. Your PCs might also get the very occasional rarer longer AD to really push them and get them conserving resources.So from 3rd to 6th level you might have the following AD's (broken up by zero encounter/ zero combat days, or downtime activity):AD 1: 3 X medium, 2 x hard, 1 x deadly [2 short rests, 1 long rest]AD 2: 3 x medium, 4 x hard [3 x short rests, 1 long rest]AD 3: 1 x hard [long rest]AD 4: 1 x deadly, 2 x medium [1 x short rest, 1 long rest]AD 5: 1 x medium [long rest]AD 6: 3 x medium, 4 x hard, 1 x deadly [3 short rests, 1 long rest]AD 7: 2 x medium [1 x short rest, 1 long rest]AD 8: 1 x hard [long rest]AD 9: 1 x hard, 1 x medium [1 x short rest, 1 x long rest]AD 10: 1 x medium, 4 x hard, 1 x deadly [2 short rests, 1 x long rest]With the overall AD XP over this time averaging the amounts listed on the 'XP per AD' charts.So the 'Adventuring day XP' evens out over time. Some days will come out over budget. Some will come out under budget. Just like the DMG doesnt expect you to only ever cram 6-8 'medium-hard' encounters at your party every AD, it also doesnt expect you to cram 'X' amount of AD XP in every single AD.As long as your campaign overall averages the amounts listed on the 'XP per AD' chart, and your players are managing resources appropriately on individual AD's, you're hitting the right mark.</blockquote>

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