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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7467816" data-attributes="member: 996">It was changed quite a bit from 4e, which, like 1e, assumed the party would rest for a bit (bind wounds &c) after most every fight (3e also had a sort of short rest, thanks to the impact of Wands of low-level spells like CLW or Lesser Vigor, you could heal everyone up in a few minutes after every fight for a fairly trivial cost in consumables).  5e's 'short' rest is a full hour (to overnight if you use the 'gritty' variant) so you can easily have two or more encounters between short rests.  3.x/PF and earlier, most classes were either all-in on at-will or all-in on daily, with hybrids, like half-casters or multi-class fighter/magic-users & the like, splitting the difference, and coming with issues of their own.  In 4e, along with the class designs investing less overall effectiveness in daily resources, it meant the number of encounters/day mainly affected relative encounter difficulty:  the party could be taxed to the breaking point over a very long day until even a level-1 encounter would look dicey, or it could engineer a single-encounter day and pull out all the stops taking on a more brutal encounter than usual with a much better chance of success.   But, class balance didn't vary wildly with the day length the way it did in other eds, and does in 5e.  So you could run a campaign that tended towards single encounter days, consistently, or one that varied around an average, or one that tended to long, grueling days - all with minimal issues.And, for the first time, 5e has classes with a very significant portion of their effectiveness wrapped up in short-rest resources (the Warlock probably the prime example).  Balancing 5e via pacing is thus as or more complex an exercise than it's ever been, with how you do it depending on party makeup, among other things.  So three short-rest types, and the two long-rest types (both healers) have more solid baselines than the stereotypical D&D magic-user...  if they get the odd short rest, should be able to handle 6-8 encounters, no problem.  If it gets rough and there are multiple short rests to burn HD, and the divine magic goes mostly to healing, it could be a frustrating day for the Cleric... Actually, sounds rough for the short-rest types, too, only one short rest where 2 or 3 might be expected. Of course.   See? Working as intended!  Not 'too easy,' afterall.BTW:  I like how you didn't limit yourself to actual fights when counting up 'encounters.'  Well done.</blockquote>

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