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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8875016" data-attributes="member: 86653">The game is designed around 6-8 medium encounters per adventuring day. That's the equivalent to 3-4 deadly encounters per day. The difference between a medium and deadly encounter is almost exactly 2x the hit points and 2x the enemies...which directly correlates to a longer fight. One deadly encounter will last roughly 2x as long as a medium encounter specifically because the doubled hp and opponents. It will take about 2x the number of rounds to grind through those hp and 2x as many resources to do so...because the PCs resources are static compared to the monsters' now higher stats. That's literally what those numbers represent.Yes, which is why monster stats scale up with PCs' levels, in the case of hit points sometimes astronomically, and this is also why there are legendary actions and legendary resistances, to burn through more PC resources. Using harder fights, deadly instead of medium, etc accomplishes that. As I said above.Yes, this tangent is about Epic Heroism, so a one-hour long rest is key. That's literally the point of the optional rule you said didn't exist. The adventuring day is a pacing mechanic. Long rests are a pacing mechanic. So when you condense the long rest to one hour...you also have to condense the adventuring day to fit between those long rests. Instead of fighting against the players desire for constant long rests that wreck game balance, you lean into that and adjust the game mechanics to match. So, one-hour long rests...but instead of pure steamrolling every encounter like you suggest...you compensate by making the fights bigger. Say double deadly as the baseline and adjust from there.</blockquote>

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