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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6688319" data-attributes="member: 12731">Sorry but I am specifically talking about the 6-8 encounter day expectation. The only way trivial fights become interesting is if you KNOW you have to survive five more of them. But why would you ever expose yourself to that in D&amp;D?In-character, there is no reason (since for all you know, that final encounter could be a deadly one that you barely can defeat at 100%, much less when at the expected 20%)Mechanically, there is no reason. Each time anything is suggested, people tear down the heavens with hysterical cries about how much they hate meta. The only reason left is story-based. Perhaps it's just me who see every princess-on-a-ticking-clock mission just as a clumsily hidden rest negating device? 90% of reasonable missions would still work even with a bonus long rest thrown in!The reason I would love a mechanic reason is that I don't see that as inherently better or worse than any other reason why you can't rest. I am able to see how its absence only means a more or less forced story based must be invented. Why then not take the rest expectation to its logical conclusion, and build it right into the game itself?Barring that, I simply don't see how I will ever stomach following this guideline.But if I don't, most adventuring days will be 0 to 2 encounters with no short rests. How I would wish this was the DMG baseline instead... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6688319, member: 12731"] Sorry but I am specifically talking about the 6-8 encounter day expectation. The only way trivial fights become interesting is if you KNOW you have to survive five more of them. But why would you ever expose yourself to that in D&D? In-character, there is no reason (since for all you know, that final encounter could be a deadly one that you barely can defeat at 100%, much less when at the expected 20%) Mechanically, there is no reason. Each time anything is suggested, people tear down the heavens with hysterical cries about how much they hate meta. The only reason left is story-based. Perhaps it's just me who see every princess-on-a-ticking-clock mission just as a clumsily hidden rest negating device? 90% of reasonable missions would still work even with a bonus long rest thrown in! The reason I would love a mechanic reason is that I don't see that as inherently better or worse than any other reason why you can't rest. I am able to see how its absence only means a more or less forced story based must be invented. Why then not take the rest expectation to its logical conclusion, and build it right into the game itself? Barring that, I simply don't see how I will ever stomach following this guideline. But if I don't, most adventuring days will be 0 to 2 encounters with no short rests. How I would wish [I]this [/I]was the DMG baseline instead... :( [/QUOTE]

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