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<blockquote data-quote="Stoutstien" data-source="post: 9430705" data-attributes="member: 7020569">WoTC has always designed with attrition in mind but the problem is that they don't understand it. Shifting different recovery rates around doesn't really change anything.Honestly one of the best decisions was not to definitively give a projected amount of encounters a table can handle. On the other hand it's fairly insulting that they just disregard the important factors when it comes to attrition such as pacing, cadence, and narrative reinforcement. They used the' if it works we take credit but if it doesn't work we blame the end user' approach.Fun fact for the day they never intended there to be a encounters per short rest as some kind of threshold. They didn't even come up with that number until after the game was already released to the public and it was used as kind of a warning sign for a GM that they might be throwing too much at the party with a gracious amount of buffer added. Is designed intent was never for the players to run dry but rather they wanted just the additional pressure of the risk of doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stoutstien, post: 9430705, member: 7020569"] WoTC has always designed with attrition in mind but the problem is that they don't understand it. Shifting different recovery rates around doesn't really change anything. Honestly one of the best decisions was not to definitively give a projected amount of encounters a table can handle. On the other hand it's fairly insulting that they just disregard the important factors when it comes to attrition such as pacing, cadence, and narrative reinforcement. They used the' if it works we take credit but if it doesn't work we blame the end user' approach. [I]Fun fact for the day they never intended there to be a encounters per short rest as some kind of threshold. They didn't even come up with that number until after the game was already released to the public and it was used as kind of a warning sign for a GM that they might be throwing too much at the party with a gracious amount of buffer added. Is designed intent was never for the players to run dry but rather they wanted just the additional pressure of the risk of doing so.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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