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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 7352795" data-attributes="member: 82779">It doesn't really take six "huge" encounters, small to medium-sized encounters work as well (though I do maximize the HPs of the creatures my players face, because they rolled quite well with their ability scores).  I've found that some players really enjoy blowing a resource to trivialize a small encounter (it helps them feel the power their character gained from levelling up, and it ends a dangerous situation more quickly) leaving them with fewer resources for when a more significant encounter arises later that session.Also, I don't strive to fit six encounters each day.  Even when I do get six or more in a given day it's likely that some of them will be social or exploration encounters that won't require expending combat-centric resources like HPs (though spending spell points on a spell to get around it is certainly possible).I don't typically expect my players to run through all their resources in one day.  There are times when they're going through parts of an adventure where I do expect they'll run out of resources, but that's only in select spots, not consistently throughout.  And you might expect from this (and that I don't strive for 6+ encounters per day) that I would be in favor of slow healing.  However, my experience with slower healing through 3e, and especially the slower healing from BECMI and AD&D 2e, is that it makes the PCs too cautious.  Lower HPs = higher risk of death, higher risk of death = doing even more to avoid combat, doing even more to avoid combat often seems to result in the PCs taking a week or so to rest up before continuing the adventure (which can really be difficult when the adventure involves a ticking clock, or other repercussions from enemies).</blockquote>

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