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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4980770" data-attributes="member: 19675">That's true, but it doesn't help you while you're shopping for adventures.  I checked the one I referenced- it was in the "Notes to the DM" section of the module.  FWIW, it was I4- which with I3 & I5 (the Deserts of Desolation series) were designed for 6-8 PCs.For clarity, my source was the 3.5 MM and DMG.That's a 50% increase in encounters.  Going proportionately the opposite direction would mean 2 combats/day.Whether that's actually a significant difference or not would require a statistical analysis that, frankly, probably will never be done.However, my gut instinct tells me that while a 25% increase (here, +1 combat/day) might well be within foreseeable tolerances for the system, winning that additional combat (getting to 6/day) would be a severe stretch for most parties.While it was not the norm for us to get to 6 combats/day, on those occasions when we got that far (or rarely, even further) between rests, we 1) usually won the encounter, and 2) rarely suffered any significant casualties*.* Again, we had only 1 death in the entirety of RttToEE...several close calls, yes, but only 1 death.  In that group, we haven't experienced more than 2 deaths in any of the last 3 campaigns, and like I said, its the same playstyle over and over.</blockquote>