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<blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 6008943" data-attributes="member: 78">I actually don't think that's an accurate way of looking things.&nbsp; I don't think that equivalent total contribution across a day is a good way of looking at things, because not all encounters are of equal difficulty or importance.&nbsp; I mean, what are the difficulties of these encounters?&nbsp; Obviously, the party is making it to the next one, so the total contribution (which, for simplicity, we assume to just be the total of the fighter and wizard) is at least equal to the difficulty.So that leaves us with an estimated difficulty of 4 -7-5-4-4-4In the two hardest encounters, the wizard is doing most of the work, while the fighter's strength lies in efficiently cleaning up trash mobs.&nbsp; That doesn't really sound like a very balanced scenario to me.Or how about an analogy?&nbsp; Let's say we have two attack rolls (an 8 and a 20), and then two enemies: a 1 HP kobold that can be hit easily, and a tough to hit evil knight.&nbsp; If the character rolls the 8 against the kobold, he'll hit and kill it, and then he gets the critical against the more dangerous enemy.&nbsp; OTOH, rolling the natural 20 against the kobold kills it, and then 8 misses the well armored knight.&nbsp; Despite the fact that the attack rolls are the same, the outcomes differ - one is clearly superior to the other due to the way those resources are allocated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victim, post: 6008943, member: 78"] I actually don't think that's an accurate way of looking things. I don't think that equivalent total contribution across a day is a good way of looking at things, because not all encounters are of equal difficulty or importance. I mean, what are the difficulties of these encounters? Obviously, the party is making it to the next one, so the total contribution (which, for simplicity, we assume to just be the total of the fighter and wizard) is at least equal to the difficulty. So that leaves us with an estimated difficulty of 4 -7-5-4-4-4 In the two hardest encounters, the wizard is doing most of the work, while the fighter's strength lies in efficiently cleaning up trash mobs. That doesn't really sound like a very balanced scenario to me. Or how about an analogy? Let's say we have two attack rolls (an 8 and a 20), and then two enemies: a 1 HP kobold that can be hit easily, and a tough to hit evil knight. If the character rolls the 8 against the kobold, he'll hit and kill it, and then he gets the critical against the more dangerous enemy. OTOH, rolling the natural 20 against the kobold kills it, and then 8 misses the well armored knight. Despite the fact that the attack rolls are the same, the outcomes differ - one is clearly superior to the other due to the way those resources are allocated. [/QUOTE]

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