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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7477343" data-attributes="member: 6919838"><p>In the game i run, the character stop for rests - long or short - when they want to or need to *and* can afford to.</p><p></p><p>In practice this means "average" is meaningless. </p><p>Sometimes they get several short rests between long rests when it matters.</p><p>Sometimes they get almost no short rests between long rests when it matters (sometimes that means a smaller number of encounters but not always.)</p><p>Sometimes they get more than a few short rests with no long rests and again a series of encounters that wear them down.</p><p></p><p>To my way of thinking and my experience, average does not matter. What matters is are you seeing in play enough "types of events" of various details and specifics that show in play the **characters in your game** as balanced? Are you by dint of the encounters you are choosing directly empowering or weakening one **character in your game** over the others in the long scheme of things? Note - did not say "class" but "character".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7477343, member: 6919838"] In the game i run, the character stop for rests - long or short - when they want to or need to *and* can afford to. In practice this means "average" is meaningless. Sometimes they get several short rests between long rests when it matters. Sometimes they get almost no short rests between long rests when it matters (sometimes that means a smaller number of encounters but not always.) Sometimes they get more than a few short rests with no long rests and again a series of encounters that wear them down. To my way of thinking and my experience, average does not matter. What matters is are you seeing in play enough "types of events" of various details and specifics that show in play the **characters in your game** as balanced? Are you by dint of the encounters you are choosing directly empowering or weakening one **character in your game** over the others in the long scheme of things? Note - did not say "class" but "character". [/QUOTE]
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