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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9413802" data-attributes="member: 6690965">We're in solid agreement here.And you've now completely missed my point.LR functions as an alternative health system, trading out whatever the standard X Attack actions you'd need to to get through a monster's HP, for 4 big spells (maybe barring a stunning strike monk) until the monster hits the "dead" or "as good as dead" status condition. The classic problem with LR is that it doesn't interact with normal HP. Spellcasters spending actions burning down LR get no benefit if the fighters do enough damage first. That's the problem solutions like Charlaquin's solve, and that is obviously preferable but a bigger design question (as you essentially are committing to building a unique series of debuffs for all your solo monsters).The problem I'm solving is that right now, LR creates weird, perverse incentives for spellcasters. You either avoid spells that should be very effective, because they waste your actions, or you end up using less effective spells, and hoping your DM decides to use the LR early, so you can actually deploy one of your winning spells.That's an unnecessary feel bad game for both participants, and leaving a bunch of game design space on the table. LRs should instead recognize the role they're playing as an alternative HP track. If you want them to require spellcasters burn 4 game winning spells before they function, they should just do that. If you want them to use 2, set it at 2. If you want them to burn through 5 actions, but only 1 game winning spell, set them to respond to a bunch of conditions at 5.My point is that 3/LRs that the GM has to decide how to deploy is a worst of both worlds scenario. It creates either a perverse incentive for the GM to play poorly if they want the players to actually use their powerful abilities, or a perverse incentive for players to avoid taking and/or using those abilities in the first place.</blockquote>

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