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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4731990" data-attributes="member: 82106">Except how many combats a party has per day is ALWAYS going to be largely in the hands of the party. A DM surely can FORCE a 3-4 encounter day on players. Doing so constantly is a form of railroading. Once or twice and it is just an interesting and challenging twist, done in every single encounter sequence it quickly wears thin.The problem I have with the extended rest houserule is twofold. First it is a totally meta-gamey houserule. There is not the faintest way to fluff it as anything else, so it simply feels hokey to the players. And secondly there are a lot of situations where a party simply cannot DO it. What happens when the party happens to face a brutally nasty encounter first thing in the day, or just plain gets unlucky and the first encounter drains them badly? Sorry guys, my anti extended rest houserule means you have to try to limp on and keep fighting because you can't get any benefit from an extended rest right now? I know my players would be challenging that as soon as it came up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 4731990, member: 82106"] Except how many combats a party has per day is ALWAYS going to be largely in the hands of the party. A DM surely can FORCE a 3-4 encounter day on players. Doing so constantly is a form of railroading. Once or twice and it is just an interesting and challenging twist, done in every single encounter sequence it quickly wears thin. The problem I have with the extended rest houserule is twofold. First it is a totally meta-gamey houserule. There is not the faintest way to fluff it as anything else, so it simply feels hokey to the players. And secondly there are a lot of situations where a party simply cannot DO it. What happens when the party happens to face a brutally nasty encounter first thing in the day, or just plain gets unlucky and the first encounter drains them badly? Sorry guys, my anti extended rest houserule means you have to try to limp on and keep fighting because you can't get any benefit from an extended rest right now? I know my players would be challenging that as soon as it came up. [/QUOTE]

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