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<blockquote data-quote="Tuft" data-source="post: 4335166" data-attributes="member: 60045">Any attempt to &quot;punish&quot; resting players by making things harder will inevitably reinforce the &quot;slow and careful&quot; approach. If the fights themselves are made harder, of course players want to rest. You've probably just depleted most their resources, and you've just taught them not to start any new fights with less than full resources. If you throw wandering monsters at them, you teach them almost the same lesson: Don't keep fighting after the first fight, because you have to save a reserve for the wandering mosters. And besides, what are wandering monsters but bonus XP anyway... As I see it, there are two possible approaches:(1) Make fights easier. The players need to feel &quot;Hey, we can take another one like this!&quot;. If they don't, then they won't continue. (2) Or simply get rid of dailies. Convert them to encounter powers, or give them a random recharge like the monsters powers. In a 3.5 campaign I play in, we exchanged Vancian for a recharge system, where you had to recharge a spell level after use. (I.e. after using a fireball, you had succeed at a dice roll before throwing another 3rd level spell.) Eliminated both the 15-minute workday and the ability of spellcasters to unload everything they had in the beginning of a battle. (Details <a href="http://hastur.net/wiki/Magic_(D%26D)" target="_blank">here</a>, if anyone is still interested in 3.5 variants).&nbsp; You could do something similar to dailies.An interesting aspect of the whole thing is that as a player, you can elect to deliberatly go for this behaviour by choosing a low Con score when building your character. Thus you will deplete your healing surges early, and require frequent resting. Which will mean you get to use your dailies more often. A bit risky if you are the only one in your team to do that, but if you like your dailies enough (or if you collude <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), well....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tuft, post: 4335166, member: 60045"] Any attempt to "punish" resting players by making things harder will inevitably reinforce the "slow and careful" approach. If the fights themselves are made harder, [i]of course[/i] players want to rest. You've probably just depleted most their resources, and you've just taught them [i]not[/i] to start any new fights with less than full resources. If you throw wandering monsters at them, you teach them almost the same lesson: Don't keep fighting after the first fight, because you [i]have to save a reserve for the wandering mosters[/i]. And besides, what are wandering monsters but bonus XP anyway... As I see it, there are two possible approaches: (1) Make fights [i]easier[/i]. The players need to feel "Hey, we can take another one like this!". If they don't, then they won't continue. (2) Or simply [i]get rid of dailies[/i]. Convert them to encounter powers, or give them a random recharge like the monsters powers. In a 3.5 campaign I play in, we exchanged Vancian for a recharge system, where you had to recharge a spell level after use. (I.e. after using a fireball, you had succeed at a dice roll before throwing another 3rd level spell.) Eliminated both the 15-minute workday and the ability of spellcasters to unload everything they had in the beginning of a battle. (Details [url=http://hastur.net/wiki/Magic_(D%26D)]here[/url], if anyone is still interested in 3.5 variants). You could do something similar to dailies. An interesting aspect of the whole thing is that as a player, you can elect to deliberatly go for this behaviour by choosing a low Con score when building your character. Thus you will deplete your healing surges early, and require frequent resting. [i]Which will mean you get to use your dailies more often[/i]. A bit risky if you are the only one in your team to do that, but if you like your dailies enough (or if you collude ;) ), well.... [/QUOTE]

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