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<blockquote data-quote="Ingolf" data-source="post: 4335053" data-attributes="member: 1783">The obvious answer, and one you're sure to get many times, is &quot;If this is a problem, why does the DM allow it?&quot; Or, in your case, why is the DM encouraging it?If he makes every combat a no-holds-barred, pull-out-the-stops affair from his end, of course you're going to want to rest afterwards. So he's already reinforcing what you feel is a bad habit by adjusting his encounters to match. If, on the other hand, he provides a more &quot;typical&quot; encounter that you should be able to handle without the use of daily powers, item powers, etc, and the players expend those abilities any way and reduce it to a cakewalk, why does the DM then allow them to rest at will? Why does the adventure not include any pressures, time constraints, what have you, to make such an approach less viable? All it would take is a 24-hour window in which the PCs must accomplish some task or else the bad guys win, and stopping to rest after every scrap is no longer an option. Once the group discovers that it is possible to run through more than one combat with the resources they have, perhaps the temptation to go all-out every time will be less of a problem.Ironically enough, my group has the opposite problem, hording daily powers and action points well past the stage they should have expended them, but they seem to be learning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ingolf, post: 4335053, member: 1783"] The obvious answer, and one you're sure to get many times, is "If this is a problem, why does the DM allow it?" Or, in your case, why is the DM encouraging it? If he makes every combat a no-holds-barred, pull-out-the-stops affair from his end, of course you're going to want to rest afterwards. So he's already reinforcing what you feel is a bad habit by adjusting his encounters to match. If, on the other hand, he provides a more "typical" encounter that you should be able to handle without the use of daily powers, item powers, etc, and the players expend those abilities any way and reduce it to a cakewalk, why does the DM then allow them to rest at will? Why does the adventure not include any pressures, time constraints, what have you, to make such an approach less viable? All it would take is a 24-hour window in which the PCs must accomplish some task or else the bad guys win, and stopping to rest after every scrap is no longer an option. Once the group discovers that it is possible to run through more than one combat with the resources they have, perhaps the temptation to go all-out every time will be less of a problem. Ironically enough, my group has the opposite problem, hording daily powers and action points well past the stage they should have expended them, but they seem to be learning. [/QUOTE]

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