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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 4710616" data-attributes="member: 111">Stop thinking, "what do I do now that this is 4e."Instead think, "what do I need to do to win this battle while not using up all my powers in case there is another battle today."That's the same thing you might have done in earlier editions.  If you used up all your spells too early, then you had none left and the party either retreated and rested for the night (even if it was still morning), or, if there was some sort of pressing need, went on anyway and took their chances.It's no different, really, except that now your limited resources are daily powers and healing surges.  Well, encounter powers, too, but that's only about that one encounter, not the whole day.So you should know if you have reason to keep going or not even while you are in the first battle of the day.  If there is no pressing reason to continue on, then why not use your daily powers and then find a pace to rest and continue tomorrow?One of the differences in 4e is that PCs are better able to handle multiple encounters in a day, so DMs may be less forgiving of the "one fight and rest" type of approach that was often done in the past and force/encourage you to go on by using things like timing issues (the hostages will be killed if you don't get there soon), etc., etc.</blockquote>