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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rofel Wodring" data-source="post: 7222048" data-attributes="member: 6873189">And I'm telling you, designing an adventure to fit the 6-8 encounters a day paradigm is a genre violation of action-adventure fiction. Not only does it lead to fourth-wall breaking events such as random encounters and Ninjas In The Night, but it's a pacing unnatural to stories. Even games that explicitly seek to challenge you by stretching out limited mundane resources like Torchbearer and Mouseguard don't do that many.Seriously, when was the last time in a movie or a comic or a cartoon a team of people with diverse abilities fought 7 discrete (let alone challenging) encounters between downtime? Even LotR didn't do more than three combat encounters between climaxes.It's a specific invention of 5E D&D. It should be gotten rid of because it's too easy to wreck the difficulty curve and when you do adhere to it you often do violence to the narrative. I support giving noncasters (many) more daily use abilities and cutting down the encounters-per-day to a more reasonable 3-4. You can also give out fewer daily abilities (to include, but not limited to spells) and class abilities, like 4E D&D did.</blockquote>