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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7839935" data-attributes="member: 996">There are, however, classes with no daily resources. An assumption made by the designers when "balancing" the classes.  What that means is balancing those few classes with the more D&D-normative full & 1/2 daily casters means tuning the at-will baseline of the daily-less classes above that of the daily classes, and pushing the latter beyond their allotment of dailies to the point that their protracted use of inferior at-will brings them down to the overall level of contribution of the former.  Short rests and a higher at-will baseline thanks to cantrips (along with the "fast combat" mandate, I suspect) make 5e the most demanding edition yet in terms of prescribed encounters/day, at 6-8.It does not make a lot of sense, no, but it is what the game design assumes will be the norm - some days less, some even more - and the classes will quickly go out of balance with eachother if you deviate.  FrogReaver has a possible fix, here, that's a little more narrative-friendly than the 13A - 'gamist' indeed - solution, in that it still allows for impactful player-initiated rests to recover hp/HD.Other options include encounter-based design, allowing players to choose from only one, or perhaps two adjacent, class Tiers, or to ban or exclusively allow only short-rest/at-will-only classes, fully DM-mediated resting/re-charging options, and, most radical of all, almost not worth mentioning:  design the game with classes that are actually balanced without pacing related intervention (unthinkable, I know, but I thought I'd include it for theoretical completeness).</blockquote>

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