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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7404434" data-attributes="member: 6857506">[MENTION=20564]Blue[/MENTION] I generally find your posts insightful and interesting; I hope you will not be offended by the directness of my comments below.Actually, that is the commonly spread misconception.  Here is the actual quote from the DMG.So, first, the 6-8 number is associated with encounters of a particular difficulty, and the text explicitly mentions more and fewer encounters as equally viable alternatives.  Per this section in the DMG, there is nothing special about 6-8 encounters.  Second, this section in the DMG is not, per se, making a recommendation about how many encounters a party ought to have; rather, it is suggesting an approximate upper limit on what they can handle.  These are good points about how the number of encounters per "adventuring day" affects class balance.  Except that there is no evidence to suggest that, for instance, a 1st level barbarian being able to rage in 1/4 to 1/3 of encounters is the intended or preferred balance point.I have considered using this variant, but the notion that you can sit around for 6 days and not recover any resources and then suddenly be made whole after day 7 is just a little too weird (for me anyway).  Admittedly, it is logically no different than the miraculous 8th hour of a standard long rest, but stretching out the fictional time just makes it seem way more discomfiting to me.What I think I really would like is a finer-grained recovery over the extended time, but I haven't thought of a way to do that that isn't way fiddly.</blockquote>

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