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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 8769365" data-attributes="member: 205">It's a smart idea.  I've noticed before that there are actually relatively few encounters between levels in the great majority of games I've played.  We typically only go about 3-4 sessions between levels, so that's maybe between 10-15 hours of gameplay time.  Even doing something encounter intensive like a dungeon crawl, you're probably only going to see about 8-10 encounters in that time frame.  I also definitely feel like modern play skews towards infrequent but more potent and climatic encounters, which means for a lot of games you might only see 4-5 encounters before a level.It does have knock-off effects on world-building, of course, especially for our contingent of players that use PC type builds for NPCs.  I would probably state that the majority of spell-wielders in the setting are short-rest casters, probably using warlock-type mechanics.  A few spells a day, bolstered by at-will invocations and lots of rituals.  I would probably also have item-crafting be much more a focus; would-be wizards aren't waiting for their spells to come back, they spend their making potions, scrolls, and wands to bolster their spellcasting.  Having abilities like Arcane Recovery be strictly short-rest abilities (no wait for a long rest to gain it back) could also be on the table.I would also probably have some in-game items capable of recharging long-rest abilities at a cost, some kind of mana potion or something along those lines.  I might do some house-ruling around individual long-rest abilities if I felt that some kind of regular recharge fit their fiction better.  Barbarian rage is an ability I might change to maybe give a level of exhaustion, for example, the "rages per long rest" can be used to ignore exhaustion a few times before taking the long rest.</blockquote>

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