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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8141798" data-attributes="member: 11">I've always ignored that # of encounters per day stuff. Sometimes there are a lot of encounters in a day (and 8 seems like a whole lot, but it is situational) and sometimes there is only one. The key is not the actual number of encounters, but the number of encounters the PCs might expect given their setting and conditions.&nbsp; As such, as a player I am not going to spend my most powerful thing on a moderate encounter, if I am holed up in a dungeon somewhere because chances are they may be another encounter, but may do it on a relatively well-traveled road between cities, if I have reason to believe in-game that multiple combat encounters on the road are unlikely.Then again, my maxim is &quot;There is no such thing as a random encounter.&quot; I may have &quot;random encounters&quot; pre-planned to slot in when needed, but that is a call I make as DM based on fun and likelihood of the area (or even how much time we have left in today's session). I don't roll.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 8141798, member: 11"] I've always ignored that # of encounters per day stuff. Sometimes there are a lot of encounters in a day (and 8 seems like a whole lot, but it is situational) and sometimes there is only one. The key is not the actual number of encounters, but the number of encounters the PCs might expect given their setting and conditions. As such, as a player I am not going to spend my most powerful thing on a moderate encounter, if I am holed up in a dungeon somewhere because chances are they [I]may [/I]be another encounter, but may do it on a relatively well-traveled road between cities, if I have reason to believe in-game that multiple combat encounters on the road are unlikely. Then again, my maxim is "There is no such thing as a random encounter." I may have "random encounters" pre-planned to slot in when needed, but that is a call I make as DM based on fun and likelihood of the area (or even how much time we have left in today's session). I don't roll. [/QUOTE]

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