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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5273091" data-attributes="member: 2067">Right, but why not? How does it create a negative effect at the table? What specifically happens to make it an issue? What's the deal with it? What does it cause that is negative? How is it un-fun?I see that as more of a narrative issue, an issue of "rising action." In standard D&D for every edition, the rising action is often a form of attrition: the tension increases as the party gets closer and closer to true irrevocable death, as their LTRs depleted.In the more modern editions, the pain and tension of death and LTRM has been lessened, so there's less "rising action" on the side of the DM. The action is now on the players' side, and they still have recharge mechanics that date back to the grey box, without the troubles that come along with running out of resources that that edition provided.If the problem is one of lacking a rising action, you can basically do two things: put back in some resources that the party can almost never recover (like an idea I had of allowing extended rests only once per adventure), or ramp up the party's power so that they're doing more incredible things as time goes on (this is essentially how a lot of fighting anime works: they never just assemble Voltron right away).</blockquote>