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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8495087" data-attributes="member: 6987520">(bold added)While perfectly rational, adventures should hardly ever be (IF ever!) perfectly rational. This is why I express to my players (and play myself) to be very conservative when it comes to spell use. In my games (anyway) when you are &quot;on the adventure&quot;, you really never know when you will get a chance to rest. Sure, there are some spells, etc. that make it more likely, but then you are basically using a resource to help recover resources.Now, rests are common enough in my games, but most of the time a rest is taken and casters still have spells available. The point is you just never know, so you are best off only using your spells when necessary, not just because they are the &quot;easy solution&quot;.Yes and no. <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=";)" />I think it really just depends on how your world views it. While magic for PCs might be commonplace due to all the spellcasting capable classes and subclcasses, that doesn't mean it is commonplace in the world. Spellcasters could be insanely rare in your game world, the PCs happening to be part of that rarity.Which is how my own games are usually run, so 5E works fine for it IMO.Now, I know many tables have a more magical world view, in which case your point is well taken if people struggle with finding a balance they want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8495087, member: 6987520"] (bold added) While perfectly rational, adventures should hardly ever be ([I]IF[/I] ever!) perfectly rational. This is why I express to my players (and play myself) to be very conservative when it comes to spell use. In my games (anyway) when you are "on the adventure", you really never know when you will get a chance to rest. Sure, there are some spells, etc. that make it more likely, but then you are basically using a resource to help recover resources. Now, rests are common enough in my games, but most of the time a rest is taken and casters still have spells available. The point is you just never know, so you are best off only using your spells when necessary, not just because they are the "easy solution". Yes and no. ;) I think it really just depends on how your world views it. While magic for PCs might be commonplace due to all the spellcasting capable classes and subclcasses, that doesn't mean it is commonplace in the world. Spellcasters [I]could[/I] be insanely rare in your game world, the PCs happening to be part of that rarity. Which is how my own games are usually run, so 5E works fine for it IMO. Now, I know many tables have a more magical world view, in which case your point is well taken if people struggle with finding a balance they want. [/QUOTE]

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