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But this really doesn't follow. For example, I'm in charge of digital audio recording lectures in class. Sometimes, though, the microphone cuts out and stops recording on the computer. It's pretty easy for me to stroll on up and jiggle the cord until the computer recognizes it again. I have no...

Seconded.

Not a problem at all :) It came across as one, but I thank you for your reply. I still think that no encounter is meaningful out-of-context, and neither do I think that putting an encounter into the context of the world as a whole means that you're being heavy handed. Can it mean that...

Since you seemed to miss my post earlier, gizmo, I'll post it again. When did I say "placing encounters in context could never be heavy-handed/manipulative"? Are you refering to the aforementioned time restrictions as "the more contrived exampels of "how you keep the party moving" in an all...

When did I say "placing encounters in context could never be heavy-handed/manipulative"?

Probably. I don't think the description of how silos work from the original suggested list of abilities is written quite clearly enough, because I interpreted it to just mean that you were locked in to a particular Attack OR Defense OR Utility ability from a given silo after you've chosen it...

That doesn't seem accurate, based on what we know about silos. If an ability is "at will", you're limited to only using it once per encounter? And further, ability 1 clearly states it deals 20 points of damage to a minion with only 10 hit points. I'm not claiming that it's never been done. I'm...

I'm definitely lost now. How do you have no way of winning if you cannot win in a single round? It appears to me that it would only take 1 round if the party used At Will Attack 1 to target the scattered minions. I'm not sure how it's relevant to what I said, though.

I'm not familiar with that adventure.

I'm not following how it's assumed that the minions are all clustered in the 4-square radius that the per-day attack requires.

Pardon the typo (and => any). Your example is a strawman. I've never run an encounter where the BBEG is always 10 seconds away from sacrificing the villager, and the PCs just so happen to stumble in at just the right moment. Not once. I think it's absolutely essential, though, that there's a...

By all means. It's not "manipulative or heavy-handed" to attach context to an encounter any more than it's "repetitive and boring to go slogging through another dungeon and repeat the walking through the door litany for the millionth time".

I posted this on another forum: That's the essence of D&D as far as I'm concerned. Start cutting those out and you start getting away from D&D into "something else". Not that this sort of thing would particularly bother me.

Briefly, from a mechanical point of view, it's always desireable to enter an encounter with your full allotment of resources, but it's acceptable to enter an encounter with a merely sufficient allotment of resources (i.e., if an encounter can be bested with only 10% of your resources, then it's...

My appologies. I've been swamped with classwork. It's acceptable from a mechanical point of view, if not from a contextual point of view.

That works fine by me, since getting something more accurate will require either precognition or unfettered access to Mike Mearls' desk ;)

Not a problem. Agreed. However, per-encounter abilities cannot be reset during an encounter, just as per-day resources can't. That's where your analogy breaks down. Within the context of that one encounter, resources do deplete. That presupposes that your fireball is your most powerful choice...

Normally, I loathe the idea of posting a massive quote-for-quote, but since it seems I missed quite a bit last night after I turned on the Daily Show... So? The action is over. The PCs had their exciting encounter, where they had to manage resources to be successful. If there isn't another...

And to yourself and RC, anything which doesn't reset within the framework of 1 day or more isn't a resource. Certainly the tactical consideration of when to use a limited resource is interesting, but I thought I was very clear in this example that the archer only has a limited number of aim...

Consider this one from Iron Heroes, then. An Archer has the ability to attack his foes in numerous ways beyond simply shooting. If he takes careful aim, he can deal additional damage ("Deadly Shot"), or inflict his foe with a penalty to attacks ("Disrupting Shot"), or even rain arrows down upon...