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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8960531" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Sometimes I wonder why it's necessary to limit a player's ability to do &quot;cool fun things&quot; in the first place.&nbsp; Would it get boring to see a Fighter perform &quot;Sweet Sword Strike&quot; every combat?&nbsp; Every turn?Does it really matter if a Wizard can throw out Magic Missile turn after turn?Does the game really need to be balanced around &quot;only able to fight X combat encounters per game day&quot;?&nbsp; What does that actually accomplish, when it's been my experience the real limit on how far a party can progress is based on running out of real-world time for the session!I mean, there's already a base mechanic for endurance, called &quot;hit points&quot;.&nbsp; You run out of those, the game is probably over.&nbsp; So it seems like telling players that they have a &quot;gun&quot; full of &quot;bullets&quot; that can allow them to use &quot;maximum effort&quot; and you have to figure out how to spread out that ammunition over the course of a &quot;game day&quot; causes more problems with adventure design, since now there's this constant struggle to make sure the players don't get a chance to use more than one bullet per X encounters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8960531, member: 6877472"] Sometimes I wonder why it's necessary to limit a player's ability to do "cool fun things" in the first place. Would it get boring to see a Fighter perform "Sweet Sword Strike" every combat? Every turn? Does it really matter if a Wizard can throw out Magic Missile turn after turn? Does the game really need to be balanced around "only able to fight X combat encounters per game day"? What does that actually accomplish, when it's been my experience the real limit on how far a party can progress is based on running out of real-world time for the session! I mean, there's already a base mechanic for endurance, called "hit points". You run out of those, the game is probably over. So it seems like telling players that they have a "gun" full of "bullets" that can allow them to use "maximum effort" and you have to figure out how to spread out that ammunition over the course of a "game day" causes more problems with adventure design, since now there's this constant struggle to make sure the players don't get a chance to use more than one bullet per X encounters. [/QUOTE]

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