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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 7192823" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Been off this thread for a few days so rather than respond to anything directly I want to jump in with a thought as I think I started this tangent with the comment that PCs need only face 3 (deadly) encounters a day to be challenged.It seems there is a disconnect between the idea of Adventuring Days and Mundane Days.  Adventuring Days, with the expected 3-18 encounters, in my mind occur when the PCs decide to go and tackle some problem they think they can handle.  Mundane Days represent the regular steady state of the world or region that they are in, and are not meant to push characters to their limits.  This allows the mechanics to inform your world building.  The same would hold true if there was 1 expected encounter a day since the deadliness of that single encounter would still have major implications for the state of the world.There is also campaign building implications in the decision to use Days or Weeks as your unit of measure, as which is chosen will effect the type of pacing your campaign will have.  To have variable pacing, at the very least, you would need the concept of rest only being allowed in "safe" locations, or you could base ability recovery on facing encounters with some sort of point system.  I think that's the real "elephant" in that the current WoTC rule set does not include a good solution to allow variable pacing, which does appear to be an oversight that should be corrected in a future rule book.</blockquote>

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