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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6771893" data-attributes="member: 6701872">You want your players to quit doing that and start using consumable items, then you have to give them so many consumables that it becomes annoying to them not to use them. Fill their character sheet space with so many consumables they have to use one just to have room to write something else down.Trust me, my group used to hoard consumables to the point that they ended one campaign with a total of like 6 dozen consumable items still in the party's possession having used exactly zero in the coarse of the campaign that took them from 1st to 17th level in AD&amp;D. Now they don't, and it is because I flooded them with consumables until they started using them - they then naturally realized the benefits of actually using what they found when any appropriate opportunity arose, rather than waiting on the mythical &quot;more beneficial later&quot;, and have continued to use consumable items even as I have scaled back to my usual distribution volume.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6771893, member: 6701872"] You want your players to quit doing that and start using consumable items, then you have to give them so many consumables that it becomes annoying to them [I]not[/I] to use them. Fill their character sheet space with so many consumables they have to use one just to have room to write something else down. Trust me, my group used to hoard consumables to the point that they ended one campaign with a total of like 6 dozen consumable items still in the party's possession having used exactly zero in the coarse of the campaign that took them from 1st to 17th level in AD&D. Now they don't, and it is because I flooded them with consumables until they started using them - they then naturally realized the benefits of actually using what they found when any appropriate opportunity arose, rather than waiting on the mythical "more beneficial later", and have continued to use consumable items even as I have scaled back to my usual distribution volume. [/QUOTE]

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