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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7526128" data-attributes="member: 6775477">As a player, I'm very old school. You never know what's coming next, so you measure out your resources carefully. Going nova, even against the BBEG, is a terrible idea, because you never know if something else may happen.In 2E, we played an adventure where we needed to kill an ancient dragon. We worked our way through the lair, holding onto as many resources as we could for the dragon. We got to his inner lair to find him asleep! We whispered a plan to unleash all our most powerful spells and abilities on him simultaneously. We moved into position, and the DM gave us a surprise round where we unleashed Hell. After the dust cleared the dragon looked up at us and said "turn around." It was a programmed illusion, and the dragon was right behind us! He then unleashed his breath weapon upon us with his own surprise round. Not only were we severely down on HP, but we'd already wasted our best spells.In a different RPG, I started an adventure with a demon attacking the inn the party was staying at. The players unleashed all their resources, assuming they would sleep afterwards. Unfortunately for them the adventure was an all night affair that didn't end until dawn. About half the party died over the course of the adventures, since they couldn't recover their abilities.Just last adventure, my 4th level divine soul sorcerer carefully spent his spell slots. I used my first level slots for Bless spells to help against those pesky lycanthropy saves. I used my second level slots for Spiritual Weapon and Dragon's Breath against what I thought was the BBEG. Afterwards, I had my sorcery points, but there was another area to be checked. The first monster we face is a carrion crawler, and the others were begging me to give them another Bless using my sorcery points, but I was worried about what was after, so I didn't. Fortunately for us, there wasn't anything else, but I wasn't going to commit unless it was desperate (which it almost was!).</blockquote>

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