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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7943620" data-attributes="member: 20564">"The amount of fun we have had nothing to do with the number of encounters or resources spent." - absolutely agree.  Which is why it's confusing when you use the amount of fun your group has to talk about resources spent.You can have a lot of fun even if the classes are unbalanced.  You mention coming from 1e, it might just feel the natural way when you've had so many years of quadratic wizards and linear fighters.  Coming from Red Box Basic myself, it was eye-opening how things that felt natural turned out to have a much worse inter-class balance that I expected between martials* and casters once I started pushing more encounters.  If 6-8 is the average, that means aiming high as often as you go low.  Do you know how casters feel after 13 encounters?  That's the same distance over 8 and 1 encounter per day is below 6.  At 13 encounters casters feel drastically different.(Martials* in a broad sense. But classes like the barbarian do very well in a low-encounter-per-day environment. No one considers spending a rage on a tough fight going nova, but it adds a heck of a lot to the class.)My problem is I don't DM to this number of encounters per day naturally, I have multiple threads about rebalancing around fewer encounters because now that I've experienced it it's noticeable.</blockquote>