Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I think something people miss about the maximum encounter day: if you have 8 Encounters of appropriate difficulty, and they last on the linger side (3 Rounds), that's a whole 24 rounds of violent action. Which is to say, about a minute and a half of narrative time. Spread over a whole day.That's great if you know a fight is coming, but when 6-8 encounters are spread over 24 of those hours, there's a good chance you are wasting the slot by casting it in advance.
The brass tacks are very different than a white room scenario.