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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 4893443" data-attributes="member: 12731">I think you should do yourself a favor and divorce completely the story-driven notions of &quot;encounters&quot; from the in-game realities of days and hours.Once you have done that, you can run any adventure you want!First the adventurers cross the desert. It will take them weeks, with individual encounters spaced several days apart. But it all takes place within a single &quot;day&quot;, that is, with no opportunity for an extended rest in between. (And not because of any &quot;the desert is unforgiving and harsh&quot; crap, but simply because &quot;I the DM say so - I told you already at the beginning the entire desert trek would be a series of encounters with no extended rest, so all combats will count for something. Reserve your energies!&quot;)Then they go down the Mummy's Tomb. This is a dungeon they will clear out in hours. However, there are a dozen rooms, so completing it all with no extended rest is deemed unreasonable. So you say &quot;the Mummy has cursed you all, and unless you slay it by midnight tonight you will all be doomed. However, you will have time for one last supper, which I will count as an extended rest&quot;. Now it is up to the adventurers to try to avoid as many rooms as possible, and delay their only extended rest as long as they dare, to have enough resources to defeat the evil Mummy before he turns them all to dust.You see why I feel WotC did us all a tremendous disservice locking extended rests to days? Why I feel it is a big wrong to keep talking about minutes and hours? Why they're wasting an enormous story potential by not leaving the time frames of short and extended rests completely up to the DM (and adventure designer).As it is, D&amp;D only really supports dungeons. (And not even all dungeons, as evidenced by my example above).Luckily the solution is simple. Trust your DM to apply reasonable timeframes for your encounters and &quot;days&quot;! If you need to go weeks between extended rests, it is probably to make a more exciting story!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 4893443, member: 12731"] I think you should do yourself a favor and divorce completely the story-driven notions of "encounters" from the in-game realities of days and hours. Once you have done that, you can run any adventure you want! First the adventurers cross the desert. It will take them weeks, with individual encounters spaced several days apart. But it all takes place within a single "day", that is, with no opportunity for an extended rest in between. (And not because of any "the desert is unforgiving and harsh" crap, but simply because "I the DM say so - I told you already at the beginning the entire desert trek would be a series of encounters with no extended rest, so all combats will count for something. Reserve your energies!") Then they go down the Mummy's Tomb. This is a dungeon they will clear out in hours. However, there are a dozen rooms, so completing it all with no extended rest is deemed unreasonable. So you say "the Mummy has cursed you all, and unless you slay it by midnight tonight you will all be doomed. However, you will have time for one last supper, which I will count as an extended rest". Now it is up to the adventurers to try to avoid as many rooms as possible, and delay their only extended rest as long as they dare, to have enough resources to defeat the evil Mummy before he turns them all to dust. You see why I feel WotC did us all a tremendous disservice locking extended rests to days? Why I feel it is a big wrong to keep talking about minutes and hours? Why they're wasting an enormous story potential by not leaving the time frames of short and extended rests completely up to the DM (and adventure designer). As it is, D&D only really supports dungeons. (And not even all dungeons, as evidenced by my example above). Luckily the solution is simple. Trust your DM to apply reasonable timeframes for your encounters and "days"! If you need to go weeks between extended rests, it is probably to make a more exciting story! [/QUOTE]

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