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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barolo" data-source="post: 7134672" data-attributes="member: 61932">Revivify is one exception to the resurrection spells that I just "charge" the expected from the book, as we perceive this as more of analogous to an expensive last resort cure than to an actual raising from the dead. Curiously, this one spell usually was kept on the paladin arsenal, and I think she felt really responsible to have this available for the sake of the others, if need would arise. It didn't really matter when her fighter team-mate was eaten whole by the gargantuan snake-fish. The monster could spare two attacks to auto-crit twice and kill him after he dropped to the "ground", so I described the death as him being swallowed by the beast.I agree. The thing is, they do not try early healing even when it would be the superior option. Sometimes they just take the whole situation for granted and get "surprised" when it ends bad.Indeed it is not a crazy idea, but sometimes she would take it too far. She would play this card quite often. It was just not very fun for the other guy that was holding the frontline with her when he saw that when she was getting the pounding, she would go full-in healing herself for some 70 HPs after she lost half her total, while in other fights he was taking the pounding and she would patiently wait for him to drop and only then she would heal him back some crumbs, so that he would proceed to drop and raise again and again. I does feel like good teamwork is what is missing, but those people are good friends of mine, and we do have a good time playing, specially out-of-combat.When I run the game, I try not to make it too much of a game of guessing, as I find it a more rewarding experience when players make their choices well informed. While I do not display on the open monster numbers, the descriptions I provide, and intel available before the encounters, usually reveal the monster overall strengths and weaknesses (so that players can try to make use of spells that target weak saves, for instance, or have a chance to know that some elemental attack will not work well), and the descriptions during the fight usually allow them to guess more-or-less the damage range of the attacks they face, or the remaining HPs of monsters.</blockquote>

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