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<blockquote data-quote="Ashkelon" data-source="post: 6669265" data-attributes="member: 6774887">Interestingly enough, the EXP per day guidelines also don't support 6-8 encounters per day. For a level 5 party, a medium encounter is 500 exp per PC, a hard is 750 per PC, and a deadly is 1100 per PC. The adjusted EXP budget is 3500 per PC. This means you can have 7 medium encounters, 4 medium and 2 hard, 4 hard and 1 medium, or 3 hard and 2 medium encounters per day. If you have any deadly encounters, you must reduce the total number of encounters you will have per day by ~2 on average.This shows us that ~5 encounters per day is the real number of encounters per day a party should face if the DM actually follows the encounter building rules. Especially if there are any deadly combats. The 6-8 number seems to have no support, either from the encounter building rules or from actual gameplay experience. It is almost as if the person writing the book chose that number seemingly at random.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ashkelon, post: 6669265, member: 6774887"] Interestingly enough, the EXP per day guidelines also don't support 6-8 encounters per day. For a level 5 party, a medium encounter is 500 exp per PC, a hard is 750 per PC, and a deadly is 1100 per PC. The adjusted EXP budget is 3500 per PC. This means you can have 7 medium encounters, 4 medium and 2 hard, 4 hard and 1 medium, or 3 hard and 2 medium encounters per day. If you have any deadly encounters, you must reduce the total number of encounters you will have per day by ~2 on average. This shows us that ~5 encounters per day is the real number of encounters per day a party should face if the DM actually follows the encounter building rules. Especially if there are any deadly combats. The 6-8 number seems to have no support, either from the encounter building rules or from actual gameplay experience. It is almost as if the person writing the book chose that number seemingly at random. [/QUOTE]

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