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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schmoe" data-source="post: 7127444" data-attributes="member: 913">I do think it's a little bit more than just guidelines.  The whole premise of short rests vs. long rests, the balance and tradeoffs between classes relying on the different rest mechanics, and the encounter difficulty guidelines, are all tied together.  If you change one then you unavoidably impact the others.  I don't think it's unfair to expect adventure designers to take it into account.  Just like I don't think it's unfair to expect designers to build encounters that aren't too challenging for the stated levels.  If a designer wants to create an adventure with only one or two encounters between rest opportunities, I would expect the encounters to be more difficult than they otherwise might be for the level and also consider how it impacts short-rest classes.  It's just good adventure design, whether it comes from a professional adventure or a home-brew.  Likewise, if the designer wants the challenge to be one of attrition, I expect the designer to actually put something in the adventure to prevent the party from just resting between each encounter.It's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen, but I also don't think it's an unrealistic expectation.  It just creates more work for me.Yeah, the AL choice is a weird one.  5E came out with this grand statement of a base game that everyone could play just fine, but then immediately made several 'optional' modes the default assumption.  I don't get it.</blockquote>

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