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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5519562" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>You keep talking about narrative. This really has nothing to do with narrative.</p><p></p><p>Do you never have a dungeon with 12 or more encounter rooms in it?</p><p></p><p>We do in our games. Not every plot line has that, but some do. Tomb of Horrors for example.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I am talking about is going into a large "dungeon" (e.g. getting caught on an island, being in another dimension, fighting through Moria, etc.) and never taking an extended rest. Why would you as DM care whether the PCs did that with 0, 1, or 2 extended rests? Why are you so wrapped up with the max number of encounters per day that the designers came up with as the only reasonable one?</p><p></p><p>One encounter in a day is reasonable.</p><p></p><p>15 encounters in a day is reasonable.</p><p></p><p>There is nothing wrong with the players making those types of decisions instead of the DM. It is their PCs after all. They are handcuffed by the rules as written and by how much the DM is willing to bend those rules via plot devices, but that doesn't mean that 15 encounters in a day is unreasonable. It only means that the 4E designers didn't take it into account.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5519562, member: 2011"] You keep talking about narrative. This really has nothing to do with narrative. Do you never have a dungeon with 12 or more encounter rooms in it? We do in our games. Not every plot line has that, but some do. Tomb of Horrors for example. The only thing I am talking about is going into a large "dungeon" (e.g. getting caught on an island, being in another dimension, fighting through Moria, etc.) and never taking an extended rest. Why would you as DM care whether the PCs did that with 0, 1, or 2 extended rests? Why are you so wrapped up with the max number of encounters per day that the designers came up with as the only reasonable one? One encounter in a day is reasonable. 15 encounters in a day is reasonable. There is nothing wrong with the players making those types of decisions instead of the DM. It is their PCs after all. They are handcuffed by the rules as written and by how much the DM is willing to bend those rules via plot devices, but that doesn't mean that 15 encounters in a day is unreasonable. It only means that the 4E designers didn't take it into account. [/QUOTE]
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