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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7840926" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't, and I don't think it's particularly rational to assume that, to be honest. I strongly suspect the vast majority of people who run those books (probably a small minority of people who actually run D&D) actually do not run them as 5-8 encounters per day. I've played in plenty of groups, and podcasts and streams and so on pretty much universally reflect a lower number of encounters on the vast majority of days. It also only allows for extremely narrow "intense but not that intense"-type design of the adventuring day, and doesn't at all support how D&D and other RPGs have been played historically and continue to be played.It's bad design.EDIT - It's also circular logic. They designed the game for 5-8 encounters/day (which was seemingly already an assumption when they started playtesting, I note - I wonder where this came from?), and then playtested with weird little dungeon crawls as literally the only kind of adventure they were playtesting, and designed the entire game around 5-8 encounters/day and because they've done that, they release adventures with 5-8 encounters/day. So is it any surprise they remain satisfied with their own logic? Yeah, if you design for a ridiculously high number of encounters/day, and then release adventures that fit that, unlike the adventures humans actually write and run, sure, you're bound to be "satisfied". It's just totally circular logic, though.A paranoid man might wonder if it they made it intentionally incompatible with how people normally run games, in order to make it so their own weirdly-designed adventures worked! Almost like DRM or something. But I suspect it's more likely to just be a weird fetish based on a dungeon obsession. It's downright hard to write a wilderness or urban adventure with that many meaningful, resource-draining encounters/day though.</blockquote>

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