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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6859931" data-attributes="member: 23751">I disagree.&nbsp; One encounter using up 100% of the party's resources is achieving the same result as 8 encounters using 100% of the party's resources.&nbsp; Nova doesn't matter if nova is required to survive.&nbsp; A nova only matters if it makes the encounter easy and there are no further encounters, so the party can then rest and repeat the next encounter.I reject your notion that it's lazy DMing.&nbsp; It's simply a different playstyle for those who don't want to go through the ridiculous format of PCs getting into 6-8 encounters a day.&nbsp; That's an excessive number of encounters.&nbsp; Perhaps on some days the PCs will be in such an area that 6-8 encounters makes sense, but not on most days.Edit: It can also be argued that 6-8 encounters is the lazy DMing.&nbsp; Any rube can pick up the books and build 6-8 encounters by using the 5e guidelines.&nbsp; It takes a very skilled DM quite a bit of work to build an encounter that takes all the abilities of the PCs into consideration and rides the line of being too hard or too easy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 6859931, member: 23751"] I disagree. One encounter using up 100% of the party's resources is achieving the same result as 8 encounters using 100% of the party's resources. Nova doesn't matter if nova is required to survive. A nova only matters if it makes the encounter easy and there are no further encounters, so the party can then rest and repeat the next encounter. I reject your notion that it's lazy DMing. It's simply a different playstyle for those who don't want to go through the ridiculous format of PCs getting into 6-8 encounters a day. That's an excessive number of encounters. Perhaps on some days the PCs will be in such an area that 6-8 encounters makes sense, but not on most days. Edit: It can also be argued that 6-8 encounters is the lazy DMing. Any rube can pick up the books and build 6-8 encounters by using the 5e guidelines. It takes a very skilled DM quite a bit of work to build an encounter that takes all the abilities of the PCs into consideration and rides the line of being too hard or too easy. [/QUOTE]

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