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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7184899" data-attributes="member: 996">Does it really matter if it's a lot of low-level humanoids who shouldn't be in a safe/settled area, or a huge dragon that shouldn't be in a safe/settled area? OK, that's 4 encounters.  That's all going on in one city in one 'day?'  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Well, maybe it is, probably just because the party's in town (fine with me, the game is about them, not about the demographics of the city)....but I can see how some folks might have world-building issues with that.  Those issues might be ameliorated by shifting the pacing, from 6-8 encounters, or alternately 3 deadly ones (the difference doesn't seem that significant, to me), crammed into a day with room for two - hour rests - to those same encounters spread out over a 'season' (y'know, like a social season in a romance novel) in town, with plenty of time for a 'short' (rare full-night's sleep in spite of all the social obligations) rest between each, but no 'long rests' until you go home to the country (to flog that Regency 'season' reference).I guess it depends on where you're willing to let your V-tude slide.   Does it bother you more that the world disgorges a flurry of deadly encounters in a place that wouldn't normally have them - that, indeed, couldn't exist if such were even plausible? Or that the party rests at a different rate in different situations?  Or that the party has more or fewer resources available without a short rest when you plan only a single encounter?(That last was a nice idea, BTW.)</blockquote>

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