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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spenser" data-source="post: 4175529" data-attributes="member: 5311">Particularly if you are GMing for 3e players, I think you will have to train them early on to conserve their dailies for A) bad dice-roll emergencies, and B) elites/solos/tough fights.We just ran a session this weekend, pure arena fights, rotating the pregen PCs and fighting random monster groups. It was a heck of a lot of fun. However, the monsters were always 50% or more above the recommended XP amount, and because we were rotating PCs, they all were allowed to use up all their action points and dailies -- which they did. Obviously that's a bad habit to get into. So in the first few adventures, consider using these techniques:* Make most encounters 400 XP or less. It's lots of fun to hit the PCs with bigger encounters: 500, 650, 800 XP and see what the PCs can do under serious pressure. But try to avoid making every encounter being so dangerous, give them some opportunities to win some easy fights using just their at-wills and good strategy.* Use streams of encounters, new bad guys getting alerted and joining the fight. Trains them to be conservative with encounter powers and use action points effectively. * Use time pressure. Trains them to save their dailies till the final fight, presumably the toughest.</blockquote>