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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5126263" data-attributes="member: 2067">Steps to Getting Paranoid Players to Use Dailies:Step 1: Tell them they will probably need to. "This is just a fair warning, guys, I know you tend to be a little reluctant to use your dailies, but some of th encounters today will be so hard, that you'll need them."Step 2: Deliver on your promise. Relentlessly difficult encounters. Looks like you're doing that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Step 3: Fudge a bit on the HP. Perhaps a solo or an elite only ever gets bloodied or dies after at least one daily has been used on them. If your party isn't using dailies, the thing will literally never die.Step 4: Know their powers, and present "perfect" opportunities for them, and point it out. If one of the dailies is a single-target, high-damage power, point out that it looks like nothing will bring this great colossus down. If one of them is a group-target spell, have minions pour out of a "gauntlet hole" and surround the party in suggestive shapes. Then, tell them, "You know, your daily might be really effective if you use it now."Step 5: Shut down encounter powers. The powers your party loves to use are negated somehow -- high energy resistance, or big regeneration, unless they use a daily.Step 6: Make that encounter obviously the final encounter before they get an extended rest. Telegraph this: "After this combat, all will be peaceful for at least two days." After you've "broken the ice," they might be more inclined to use them in the future. Or not, but at least you'll get to see one big encounter where they're using dailies like throwing candy at a parade.</blockquote>

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