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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1330354" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes, but over the course of the series, does Gabrielle get nearly as much screen time as Xena?  No.  This is not a criticism of the series as a TV series.  In TV, having a single focus character is okay.  But it isn't so good in gaming.Sorry, you cannot point to the series and say, "This is a good example", and then have to shore it up with things that don't actually appear in the series. We don't see the side adventures.  If they are there, they are not mentioned and have no impact on the plot (an indication of how important they aren't).  The simple fact is that the program as shown is a poor example of equitable PC importance.  Sure, if you throw in things that aren't seen you can balance it up, but then you start getting into the realm of "Friends" being an example of a high fantasy series, it's just that all the magic and spellcasting happen offscreen. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This being aside from the fact that repeated "side adventures" that split up the party are not something that many gaming groups can work with.  College students can usually manage to do it, but folks in the working world frequently don't have the extra time.And, as an aside:Don't worry, they didn't.  The 3.5e DMG has the same table on page 49.So, if any player wants to mouth off in terms of "official" balance of encounters, then the DM can point them to the appropriate page in the DMG and explain that encounters that only use 20-25% of the party resources are only a sort of average.  In fact the DMG explicitly states that the authors intend there to be a mix of encounters, ranging from easy to nigh-impossible difficulty.</blockquote>

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