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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6950308" data-attributes="member: 20564">Resource managementIssue:  at-will/short-rest/long-rest abilities force an artificial structure to every adventuring day in order to keep the balance between classes.Solution:  Divorce resource recharge from player-controllable actions (letting time pass, taking rest, etc.).  Solution option A:  Perhaps a current short-rest ability comes back every other combat encounter.  Or is prorated for things that can be broken up like Ki so you get back level/2 Ki every encounter.  Long-rest resources can also come back after 7 encounters, again possibly pro-rated.Solution option B:  Tie resource recharge to minor and major milestones.  Perhaps when crossing a desert short rest resources will return at each oasis, and long-rest at the end of the trip.  This would allow the whole 3-week journey which only has five encounters spread across the weeks not to heavily favor the long-rest people.This has the extra benefits of allowing clever play that avoids encounters (or keeps them non-combat) to preserve resources for future encounters, combating the murder-hobo encouragement in the rules.Known issue:  I focus on combat because the majority of expendable resources will be used there.  But it's perfectly possible to use a lot of utility spells and other limited resources in non-combat activities.  I don't want to discourage those, but by the same measure the single caster who burns spells to fly several up a cliff, while others either benefit from the spells or use non-expended abilities like Athletics to climb, should those who were ferried up be closer to regaining their resources?  Should the one who cast all the fly spells not be?</blockquote>

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