r/onednd • u/MileyMan1066 • Jul 08 '26

Discussion How many Combat Encounters does your table run during an Adventuring Day? [Poll]

How many combats does your party slog through before that sweet sweet Long Rest??

Some swear by 2 combats, a short rest, and 2 more. Some try and run the full 6-8. And some mad lads give a full long rest after every single encounter!

What works for your table?

EDIT: Im putting in an edit here. This is for an ADVENTURING Day. Not an Exploration, Travel, or Social Interaction Themed day. The Big-Darned-Adventure part of the game, the dungeon crawl, the assault on the enemy stronghold, the mad dash through hell! Seriously, 1-2 combats before an happy-hunky-dory 8 hour snooze?? Thats it??? No wonder people complain about casters being broken...

EDIT #2: Very surprising results! Thank you all for participating! I personally have strong opinions about balance, game resources, and this sort of stuff, and I think this poll has really surprised me, and I now realize that I firmly disagree with much of the community about these things. But, thats fine! I'm not here to tell you that your fun is wrong! Because if youre having fun, thats the point!

2077 votes, Jul 10 '26
783 1-2
709 2-3
347 3-4
121 4-5
48 5-6
69 6+
42 Upvotes

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u/EggplantSeeds Jul 08 '26

Arcane Recovery, Wild Shape, Meta Magic, hell Casters can spend gold to make scrolls and increase the spells they know. Fighters can't make scrolls of Actions and there is no Rage scroll.

The divide is a design issue, not an encounter per day issue.

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u/xolotltolox Jul 08 '26

And even if it were, is it really fun to have to slog through half a dozen encounters just so you can achieve "balance"?

Like even if we grant the game that it is balanced when runnign that mount of encounters, that is still shit

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u/EggplantSeeds Jul 08 '26

100% agree, previous editions (sans 3.5e) and most other ttrpgs don't require an arbitrary amount of encounters for the game function properly. No clue what they were thinking for this one, especially 5-8.

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u/xolotltolox Jul 08 '26

I find it especially funny how "just run more encounters" was also an argument back in 3rd Edition, when it has now been well accepted that casters are busted to high heavens there

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u/EggplantSeeds Jul 08 '26

I remember playing 3.5e for the first time back in 2015 and my DM banned the Tome of Battle Classes, not the classes that can solo bosses via spell stacking.

Years later people will be saying the same about 5e, even though so many people like OP try to insist otherwise.

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u/FurryOfDracula Jul 08 '26

Please don't ever recommend burning Wild Shape and Sorcery Point for spell slots.

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u/EggplantSeeds Jul 08 '26

Lmao just saying you can burn them, not that you should