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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8911568" data-attributes="member: 6987520">And that was my first suggestion to the OP. Just play them as written and then if you find them struggling, do something to balance them out.After all, if the 6-8 encounter layout is:2 encountersshort rest2 encountersshort rest2 encounterlong restwith maybe 1 encounter thrown in here or there between rest, then the warlock functions perfectly:2 encounters and then rest is what they are design (as is) for.True! The vast majority of encounters do tend in the 3-5 range IME, sometimes just 1 or 2, other times a bit longer. But, I've certainly had more than my share of running slugfests lasting 10-20 rounds or much longer.IIRC I think my current record for 5E was something like 83 or 87 rounds... but that was more of a wave after wave string of battles as the PCs assaulted the Fire Giant King's lair and the battle never ended from one wave to the next as often there were more enemies entering the fray before the current ones were defeated. Not surprisingly, it took us over 8 hours to play the whole thing out--it was pretty much the entire session. Needless to say, it was exhausting to run. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>