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<blockquote data-quote="Mordhau" data-source="post: 8506159" data-attributes="member: 7032137">No there are ongoing design issues here.&nbsp; Especially when you get to long rest vs at-will like the Rogue or (almost) the Champion Fighter. For one the tendency is for the number of combats to cluster around the low side of the average rather than the high.&nbsp; In a campaign that often has around&nbsp; 6 combats a day there are likely to still be single combat days.&nbsp; There may be no days where there are 12 combats.The other is the way rest resources are handled in the narrative arc.&nbsp; A 10th level wizard who knows that there is a boss fight coming very soon will hold back resources and still have half his spell slots left for the final fight and try to rely on cantrips as much as possible in the lead up fights.&nbsp; A Warlock will still only go into that fight with two spell slots.&nbsp; A Fighter will have this action surge, but a Paladin will be hoarding all those spell slots for Fights.&nbsp; In practice this means that the Long Rest classes have a lot more capacity to be really awesome when being awesome matters most.You could fake out the players by having them face the boss fight and use up all their resources and then have the true boss reveal themselves so the Champion and the Rogue really get to shine, but that risks becoming somewhat anti-climactic, and I also think it's a trick that would rapidly be seen as unfun by the players of long rest classes if you kept trying to pull it.What you need if a mechanic by which certain classes that benefit from longer days, can also raise the stakes on shorter days.&nbsp; 4e did this with the Barbarian.&nbsp; They had encounter long &quot;rage&quot; effects.&nbsp; However, they recognised that this might be underwhelming have three such effects in a one combat day, so they added a &quot;Rage Strike&quot; mechanic, where you could spend your unused encounter long rages to do extra damaging attacks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mordhau, post: 8506159, member: 7032137"] No there are ongoing design issues here. Especially when you get to long rest vs at-will like the Rogue or (almost) the Champion Fighter. For one the tendency is for the number of combats to cluster around the low side of the average rather than the high. In a campaign that often has around 6 combats a day there are likely to still be single combat days. There may be no days where there are 12 combats. The other is the way rest resources are handled in the narrative arc. A 10th level wizard who knows that there is a boss fight coming very soon will hold back resources and still have half his spell slots left for the final fight and try to rely on cantrips as much as possible in the lead up fights. A Warlock will still only go into that fight with two spell slots. A Fighter will have this action surge, but a Paladin will be hoarding all those spell slots for Fights. In practice this means that the Long Rest classes have a lot more capacity to be really awesome when being awesome matters most. You could fake out the players by having them face the boss fight and use up all their resources and then have the true boss reveal themselves so the Champion and the Rogue really get to shine, but that risks becoming somewhat anti-climactic, and I also think it's a trick that would rapidly be seen as unfun by the players of long rest classes if you kept trying to pull it. What you need if a mechanic by which certain classes that benefit from longer days, can also raise the stakes on shorter days. 4e did this with the Barbarian. They had encounter long "rage" effects. However, they recognised that this might be underwhelming have three such effects in a one combat day, so they added a "Rage Strike" mechanic, where you could spend your unused encounter long rages to do extra damaging attacks. [/QUOTE]

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