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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7944502" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The number of encounters recommended or expected within an adventuring day is immaterial. An adventuring day is a day of adventure, not a series of encounters. Yes, the the design expects 6-8 encounters to occur during a day of adventure, but 6-8 encounters in sequence with nothing else occurring in the mean time is not a day of adventure per se.No, you cannot fit an adventuring day into 1 hour. You can fit 6-8 encounters into one hour, but that’s not an adventuring day if that’s all you’re doing.Furthermore, I don’t think it’s absurd for 6-8 encounters that occur over less than 1 hour to not interrupt a long rest. Let’s suppose that a party starts a long rest, spends 4 hours resting, then gets attacked by wild animals. The combat takes 4 rounds. 5 minutes later, another 4-round animal attack occurs. Repeat until there have been 8 such combats. This party has now spend 4 hours resting, 3 minutes and 12 minutes fending off Wild animals, and 40 minutes trying to get back to sleep between animal attacks. It is not absurd to me that if they go back to bed for 4 hours, they’ll still have gotten a full night’s rest. It is absurd to me to describe what they experienced as an “adventuring day.”I agree that 600 rounds of combat occurring in the middle of a long rest isn’t going to happen. I disagree that this is the least bit of a problem with the rule, because combat is an adventuring activity, and one hour of adventuring activity breaks a long rest. It doesn’t have to be a full hour of a single adventuring activity, but the rule has to account for the possibility of any combination of adventuring activities that total one hour.</blockquote>

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