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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 6714390" data-attributes="member: 6788973">Your definition of combat doesn't fit with the intended goal of the poll. Successive fights should be balanced and considered as distinct encounters. If you fight an owlbear, and when it dies you fight another, and then when that dies you fight a third... That encounter's XP budget should not include a multiplier. They didn't take actions together, split attention, etc. it was three encounters, back to back. Whether encounters are separated by 6 seconds or 6 minutes makes no difference in terms of difficulty and resources expended. Even a pause of 6 hours only matters if party is able to take a short rest. A single drawn out fight in a keep, where you have an initial engagement followed by three waves of reinforcements is, for 5e encounters per day purposes, 4 encounters. If you take a short rest after clearing out the keep and then get ambushed by another group, then the sounds of your fight draws the attention of a monster just as the ambush ends, thats 2 more. Throw in a couple sentries that you took out before hitting the bulk of the keep and you have 7 full combat encounters separated by a single short rest.</blockquote>