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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6948475" data-attributes="member: 12731">I'd love for your characterization to be true, and I would love for the adventure writers to have taken your 6-8 a day guidelines into account, but I simply don't see it.Official 5E adventures do feature dungeons, but also feature travelling for weeks (if not months), and quite commonly feature what I for want of a better word call "sidetreks" (things not extensive enough to be called a dungeon, that more pertinently does not feature "enough" encounters according to your dogma).If I didn't know better I would even say some 5E adventure authors doesn't give a crap about the official guidelines. It's almost as if they aren't even aware of them. The point here is that if you religiously adhere to the DMG advice like it was the ten commandments, you will fail to set up anything resembling a challenge.You (and I) can obviously make our own adventures that make (reasonably) sure most (if not all) adventure days contain many more encounters than just two or three (if not the "full eight"), but that's beside the point. Beside my point, at any rate - this is about published modules, where somebody else is supposed to have done the hard work for you.My point is twofold:a) having to populate your adventures with 6-8 encounter days is a huge drag. Not only in itself, but because the PHB is so exceedingly generous in allowing players to chop one day (that indeed might be challenging) into two absolutely trivial and thus boring ones. It's almost as if the PHB generosity is actively working against you, when all I want (and you too) is to give the players a good time. Both in published and selfmade scenarios.b) that official adventures doesn't give a damn about these guidelines. They don't follow them. If they end up with an 8 encounter day, it's very hard to not consider that a pure accident. Why? Because they don't do what you claim is so easy - they (almost) never set up any real time constraints. They never show you how to put your precious guideline into practice. You might want to think about why... (Spoiler: Because it's bloody difficult even when you know your party, and quite impossible when you don't, and official adventures certainly don't)So.I am quite emphatically concluding that your cherished advice might well be well-meaning, but it is also hugely impractical. It simply is not good for the game, and needs to go.And that leads us to something you never adress. Sure you have a point in telling people "this is what you need to do to make the game work". But you never question whether its any good. You never talk about downsides, and you never talk about alternatives. You really should do that more, Flamestrike.Thanks for reading,Zapp</blockquote>

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