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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 8766452" data-attributes="member: 28487">The&nbsp; 6 to 8 encounter per pay is setting an expectation and is not a rule. It is madness to suggest it as mandatory. It is also contradicted by the table below that paragraph that gives the daily XP budget for the adventuring day per character.So from the table at level one the budget is 300 XP per day per character; that is 1,200XP per day for a party of 4Two pages earlier is a table for the encounter difficulty thresholds per character and for level 1;A medium encounter is 50 XP per character, so for a party of 4 that is 200XP and divide 200XP in to the daily budget for level one party of 4 you get 1200/200 = 6 which is less than 8Now lets look at hard encounters. Here the XP per encounter per character is 75 and for a party of 4 that is 300 which translates to 4 encounters in an adventuring day.Now look at level 5, here the daily budget per adventurer is 3,500XP and that for a party of 4 is 14,000XP Now looking at the encounter budgets we get Medium at 500 XP per PC and Hard at 750XP per PC.This gives an encounter budget of 2,000 XP per medium encounter and 3,000 XP per hard encounter. Going out at 7 easy encounters per day for medium only and ~4.9 for medium encounters.Purely for the fun of it I looked at a few other combinations of pure medium or hard encounters at level 5 and 10 for parties of 4 to 6 and got numbers of around 7 for medium and 4.5 or there about for hard encounters.Given that in my experience a deadly encounter will only drop a pc to zero and is unlikely to TPK and you could toss in a medium encounter with it and most parties will manage you can make of this what you may.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 8766452, member: 28487"] The 6 to 8 encounter per pay is setting an expectation and is not a rule. It is madness to suggest it as mandatory. It is also contradicted by the table below that paragraph that gives the daily XP budget for the adventuring day per character. So from the table at level one the budget is 300 XP per day per character; that is 1,200XP per day for a party of 4 Two pages earlier is a table for the encounter difficulty thresholds per character and for level 1; A medium encounter is 50 XP per character, so for a party of 4 that is 200XP and divide 200XP in to the daily budget for level one party of 4 you get 1200/200 = 6 which is less than 8 Now lets look at hard encounters. Here the XP per encounter per character is 75 and for a party of 4 that is 300 which translates to 4 encounters in an adventuring day. Now look at level 5, here the daily budget per adventurer is 3,500XP and that for a party of 4 is 14,000XP Now looking at the encounter budgets we get Medium at 500 XP per PC and Hard at 750XP per PC. This gives an encounter budget of 2,000 XP per medium encounter and 3,000 XP per hard encounter. Going out at 7 easy encounters per day for medium only and ~4.9 for medium encounters. Purely for the fun of it I looked at a few other combinations of pure medium or hard encounters at level 5 and 10 for parties of 4 to 6 and got numbers of around 7 for medium and 4.5 or there about for hard encounters. Given that in my experience a deadly encounter will only drop a pc to zero and is unlikely to TPK and you could toss in a medium encounter with it and most parties will manage you can make of this what you may. [/QUOTE]

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