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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9273174" data-attributes="member: 93670">Like I quoted in 364...[Spoiler=&quot;I'll quote it again&quot;]So right there we have a rough outline of an &quot;adventuring day.&quot; 6-8 medium or hard encounters, with two short rests, per long rest. And there are a lot of arguments about what this actually means.&quot;It says the party can handle it, not that they have to.&quot;&quot;Not every day is an adventuring day.&quot;&quot;It's not combat encounters.&quot;And all of these are probably true to some extent, but if you read that section in context of how they're also talking about XP (which RAW is only granted by combat), and increasing encounter difficulty with things like &quot;The whole party is surprised, and the enemy isn’t.&quot; or &quot;The characters are taking damage every round from some environmental effect or magical source, and the enemy isn’t.&quot; these are clearly intended to be combat encounters. I mean maybe in your games you have &quot;surprise&quot; for Social Encounters, but I've certainly never seen it.I don't think we should be trying to do mental gymnastics to justify what &quot;6-8 encounters with 2 short rests&quot; means. I think it's much easier to just admit WotC designed a game how most people don't want to play it. This also explains why there's so much class disparity[/Spoiler]Your efforts are only demonstrating how terrible the 2014 dmg is at providing useless and downright misleading info.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9273174, member: 93670"] Like I quoted in 364... [Spoiler="I'll quote it again"] So right there we have a rough outline of an "adventuring day." 6-8 medium or hard encounters, with two short rests, per long rest. And there are a lot of arguments about what this actually means. "It says the party can handle it, not that they have to." "Not every day is an adventuring day." "It's not combat encounters." And all of these are probably true to some extent, but if you read that section [I]in context[/I] of how they're also talking about XP (which RAW is only granted by combat), and increasing encounter difficulty with things like "The whole party is surprised, and the enemy isn’t." or "The characters are taking damage every round from some environmental effect or magical source, and the enemy isn’t." these are clearly intended to be combat encounters. I mean maybe in your games you have "surprise" for Social Encounters, but I've certainly never seen it. I don't think we should be trying to do mental gymnastics to justify what "6-8 encounters with 2 short rests" means. I think it's much easier to just admit WotC designed a game how most people don't want to play it. This also explains why there's so much class disparity [/Spoiler] Your efforts are only demonstrating how terrible the 2014 dmg is at providing useless and downright misleading info. [/QUOTE]

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