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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8181381" data-attributes="member: 6687260">Look it's very simple.  If we take 6-8 as the intended balancing point (which it really isn't - people need to go back and read the DMG - it's only 6-8 if those encounters are medium/hard, which in 5e terms means 'easy' - throw in one or two 'deadly' encounters and that number comes down), then we have to consider the likelihood of variation.If over the course of five adventuring days you have 6,7,8,9,6 combats then you;re mostly within range.  If you have 6,,2,3,6,2 then you're trending low.  I'd bet it's not unusual for tables to have a single combat in a day now and then.  I'd be surprised if many tables ever have 14 combats in a day.  Therefore when we consider classes we have to consider that they're sometimes going to only have one or two short rests in a day (and rarely if ever going to have four or more).Therefore the point of my original post was that we need to consider versatilty across a number of rests per day.</blockquote>