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<blockquote data-quote="mvincent" data-source="post: 3114696" data-attributes="member: 27034">Ah. Well, that is non-typical. How do the spellcasters fair?Average is 4 battles a day, with about three rounds of actual combat per battle (that seems quick, but these are relatively easy encounters of CR equal to your level). A player would likely only use his boots 2/3rds of the time (1/3rd if very conservative).Also, most groups have no problem with resting for a day when running low on resources (because it doesn't take up any real time) .That's why mithral full-plate of speed is better than a second pair of boots. Alternately, you can stack magical abilites on slotted items for +50% cost (so a pair of boots that lasted 20 rnds total would be 12k gp + 18k gp).Since haste changes some many stats, limited use boots are mostly just a meta-game pain due to recalculations. My solution to that was getting multiple boots to justify hard-coding the stat modifications on your character sheet. This may not work for all groups, but your characters could always take the opportunity to sleep more often.I can only see speed being beneficially for specific purposes where protracted combat is expected (like for military uses in large battles). A ballista or automatic crossbow of speed on a city wall during a siege seems perfectly useful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mvincent, post: 3114696, member: 27034"] Ah. Well, that is non-typical. How do the spellcasters fair? Average is 4 battles a day, with about three rounds of actual combat per battle (that seems quick, but these are relatively easy encounters of CR equal to your level). A player would likely only use his boots 2/3rds of the time (1/3rd if very conservative). Also, most groups have no problem with resting for a day when running low on resources (because it doesn't take up any real time) . That's why mithral full-plate of speed is better than a second pair of boots. Alternately, you can stack magical abilites on slotted items for +50% cost (so a pair of boots that lasted 20 rnds total would be 12k gp + 18k gp). Since haste changes some many stats, limited use boots are mostly just a meta-game pain due to recalculations. My solution to that was getting multiple boots to justify hard-coding the stat modifications on your character sheet. This may not work for [I]all[/I] groups, but your characters could always take the opportunity to sleep more often. I can only see speed being beneficially for specific purposes where protracted combat is expected (like for military uses in large battles). A ballista or automatic crossbow of speed on a city wall during a siege seems perfectly useful. [/QUOTE]

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