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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 9853969" data-attributes="member: 6802951">The system seems to be mostly balanced around 6-8 reasonable encounters per day, with 3 or so short rests. Ish. This playstyle fits with the dungeon-crawl style of adventure quite well.However polls and conversations seem to show that more people are using a more plot-driven style where they may only have 1-3 encounters per day - which the DMs generally crank the difficulty of each higher to provide the same challenge. It is entirely possible to have both in the same campaign, or even adventure however.Battle Smith is pretty much hands-down the best Artificer subclass in most situations because it has extremely solid martial-style damage, but also the best spells to use in its spell-storing item of any artificer (outside of the Maverick now).Alchemists, Cartographers, and Mavericks are reliant on spells to be effective, but in this style they are competing with the full-caster classes, to whom they have trouble measuring up.</blockquote>