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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8870531" data-attributes="member: 20564">In this case, of &quot;RPG&quot;, you are neglecting the &quot;G&quot; part of it.Class balance in D&amp;D is strongly affected by the number of encounters between rests.&nbsp; You can make up the deadliness of fewer encounters with mroe challenging encounters, but class balance is off.&nbsp; Think like this - compare a rogue, a nice at-will repeat-every-round type of charactrer, with a full casters. In a game where the full caster just needs to cast their highest level slots that caster will have a much higher effect per round that the at-will.&nbsp; On the other hand if there's enough that the same full caster is at times using cantrips and other things which are less than the at-will repeatable, the average effetiveness per action will come down and they will be in the same neighborhood.&nbsp; An even easier example is where is a barbarian more powerful - where they can rage every combat, or rage in half the combats.Mind you, 5e is pretty poorly calibrated on how many enocunters are needed to use up all the resources they gave to classes.&nbsp; That doesn't mean that it isn't still what the balance between different classes in based on, just that it often gets reduced.&nbsp; When you fully don't care though it really gets neglected.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8870531, member: 20564"] In this case, of "RPG", you are neglecting the "G" part of it. Class balance in D&D is strongly affected by the number of encounters between rests. You can make up the deadliness of fewer encounters with mroe challenging encounters, but class balance is off. Think like this - compare a rogue, a nice at-will repeat-every-round type of charactrer, with a full casters. In a game where the full caster just needs to cast their highest level slots that caster will have a much higher effect per round that the at-will. On the other hand if there's enough that the same full caster is at times using cantrips and other things which are less than the at-will repeatable, the average effetiveness per action will come down and they will be in the same neighborhood. An even easier example is where is a barbarian more powerful - where they can rage every combat, or rage in half the combats. Mind you, 5e is pretty poorly calibrated on how many enocunters are needed to use up all the resources they gave to classes. That doesn't mean that it isn't still what the balance between different classes in based on, just that it often gets reduced. When you fully don't care though it really gets neglected. [/QUOTE]

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