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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5127672" data-attributes="member: 40177">This is generally what I do.&nbsp; A huge series of encounters leads to the &quot;turtling&quot;, whereas if you go with a &quot;delve&quot; format (three or four harder encounters) it encourages more use of dailies.&nbsp; I had noticed this problem a while back, with PCs not using their dailies, and I made two subtle observations to the players after a session:1)&nbsp; Most dailies are best used at the start of an encounter, because they often have an &quot;until end of encounter&quot; effect.&nbsp; 2)&nbsp; If one PC uses a daily per encounter, the party will still have dailies left at the end of the gaming day - and since bad guys are killed faster, they wind up in less trouble.Once those two things were taken note of by the players, we saw dailies getting used when most useful.&nbsp; And Blargney is absolutely right - my players will SHRED through encounters (the rogue, for example, killed a monster in two hits, using just at-wills!&nbsp; Before the monster even had a chance to attack!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5127672, member: 40177"] This is generally what I do. A huge series of encounters leads to the "turtling", whereas if you go with a "delve" format (three or four harder encounters) it encourages more use of dailies. I had noticed this problem a while back, with PCs not using their dailies, and I made two subtle observations to the players after a session: 1) Most dailies are best used at the start of an encounter, because they often have an "until end of encounter" effect. 2) If one PC uses a daily per encounter, the party will still have dailies left at the end of the gaming day - and since bad guys are killed faster, they wind up in less trouble. Once those two things were taken note of by the players, we saw dailies getting used when most useful. And Blargney is absolutely right - my players will SHRED through encounters (the rogue, for example, killed a monster in two hits, using just at-wills! Before the monster even had a chance to attack!) [/QUOTE]

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