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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6799085" data-attributes="member: 996">The traditional 'attrition model,' yes.Still just a guideline.&nbsp; DM judgement is clearly meant to count for a lot in 5e.It's not like balancing at 6-8 medium/hard encounters per day is all that lofty an ambition.&nbsp; Take the vast universe of possible ways to pace a campaign, and only balance one of them.&nbsp; That should be doable.If there's enough of them, and they're not that much better than eachother, that's not so much broken/imbalanced as 'rewarding system mastery' and everything else being a 'trap option.' White room** 'kiting' silliness.&nbsp; Well, it's captured the feel of 3.5, then, for you at least. If it's boring, it's not balanced*.* for values of 'balanced' approximating &quot;provides the player with many choices that are each both meaningful and viable.&quot;** white room with no walls or ceiling, that is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6799085, member: 996"] The traditional 'attrition model,' yes.Still just a guideline. DM judgement is clearly meant to count for a lot in 5e. It's not like balancing at 6-8 medium/hard encounters per day is all that lofty an ambition. Take the vast universe of possible ways to pace a campaign, and only balance one of them. That should be doable. If there's enough of them, and they're not that much better than eachother, that's not so much broken/imbalanced as 'rewarding system mastery' and everything else being a 'trap option.' White room** 'kiting' silliness. Well, it's captured the feel of 3.5, then, for you at least. If it's boring, it's not balanced*. * for values of 'balanced' approximating "provides the player with many choices that are each both meaningful and viable." ** white room with no walls or ceiling, that is. [/QUOTE]

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