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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4348633" data-attributes="member: 114">This is basically my plan too - otherwise I agree, it is entirely possible for combats to turn into a bit of a pointless grind.We even found this with the 1st level PCs against the black dragon, because the party quickly used up their encounter and daily powers and were stuck with at-will, at-will, at-will for the next 15 rounds of combat <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Overall I like the principle of melees taking more than 2-5 rounds (which was what it always seemed to reduce to in my 3e games after about 8th level), but I'd like it to happen without ending up as a grind against hp with the at-wills (on both the PCs and the monsters part)CheersFWIW the DMG suggests that monsters use their encounter powers early in order to make sure they get to use them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>