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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7525426" data-attributes="member: 71699">So the hypothesis needed is something like, earlier encounters will - through resources - affect the chance of death in later. Possibly modelled as the complex numbers c+ri. Right? That might reveal how choices DMs make about encounters per day impacts on lethality. An argument against such effort could be something like, resources don't matter anyway because most campaigns use one-encounter-adventuring days, or at least few-enough-encounters that resource depletion is rarely a factor (in lethality). I know I've worked to make resources a factor in my campaign, and I cannot hand on heart say a character has ever died because of it. The bigger factor has always been the CR of the foes, and whether the chosen foes possess abilities capable of countering what characters bring to the field.Anyway, I hope I see what you mean now and I'd like to think more about it. Perhaps trial some ways to model using complex numbers. What you say should be true, but might not reflect what many DMs are doing.</blockquote>