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<blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 3939849" data-attributes="member: 12306">The silliness of the rat-on-a-stick (or the blind kobold, or the bag of rats) serves to illustrate issues that *will* occur.&nbsp; One issue is what occurs if the party rebuffs immediately every time their buffs drop?&nbsp; If starting a new encounter drops encounter-duration buffs, you will have buffs lasting for seconds in one case, hours in others, and heated arguments over what counts as a new encounter.&nbsp; If buffs don't drop at the start of a new encounter, people will have their (per-encounter) buffs up all the time.&nbsp; If per-day buffs are powerful, people *will* stretch the definition of an encounter to keep them up.&nbsp; They will be able to find better excuses than blind kobolds, too.Time based durations, at least, are well defined and non-negotiable.(note further that if the party is trying to escort an angry &quot;prisoner&quot; that they don't really want to harm, a princess who is trying to run away say, to choose something in genre, then you *do* have a fully legitimate &quot;blind kobold&quot; scenario... and the PCs may well choose to buff themselves so they can handle her better without causing permanent harm...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kraydak, post: 3939849, member: 12306"] The silliness of the rat-on-a-stick (or the blind kobold, or the bag of rats) serves to illustrate issues that *will* occur. One issue is what occurs if the party rebuffs immediately every time their buffs drop? If starting a new encounter drops encounter-duration buffs, you will have buffs lasting for seconds in one case, hours in others, and heated arguments over what counts as a new encounter. If buffs don't drop at the start of a new encounter, people will have their (per-encounter) buffs up all the time. If per-day buffs are powerful, people *will* stretch the definition of an encounter to keep them up. They will be able to find better excuses than blind kobolds, too. Time based durations, at least, are well defined and non-negotiable. (note further that if the party is trying to escort an angry "prisoner" that they don't really want to harm, a princess who is trying to run away say, to choose something in genre, then you *do* have a fully legitimate "blind kobold" scenario... and the PCs may well choose to buff themselves so they can handle her better without causing permanent harm...) [/QUOTE]

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