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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8646906" data-attributes="member: 18">Whilst this works, the trouble is, it's not usually fun, and it gets old extremely fast with intelligent players (or at least ones who aren't drinking lol) who are thoughtful about metagame concepts and/or game design, because they very quickly understand what you're doing. It's transparent, if you keep using time-threats just to try and stop players making the obviously most intelligent decision, which the rules are basically designed to make them want to take.So I'd suggest that, in real groups, at least those who have people who think about game-design etc. this should be used only sparingly and logically, and you keep doing it regularly, the amount of fun they're having is likely to decrease.It's also why designing 5E around 6-8 encounters/day was fundamentally a bad idea. It would have been a lot smarter to move to design around say 2-4 or even 1-3 encounters/day, because that gives DMs an absolute ton more flexibility, and it fits much better with what the rules make players want to do.</blockquote>